Re: DBCENTURY in 7.22 Vs 7.23

Yes, even with DBCENTURY correctly set, the engine fails to recognize Feb 29, 2000 as a valid date. Bug no is 60150. First versions that have this bug fixed are 7.23.UC9, 7.24.UC4 and 7.30.UC1. Cristian. June Tong wrote: > > Vijay R. Anisetti wrote: > > > I have a 7.22 installation on one machine and 7.23 on another, both > > are HP boxes. I was checking the Informix documentation regarding the > > Year 2000 compliance of the Informix-Online Dynamic Server, it says > > the versions >=7.23.UC9,>=7.24.UC6 are recommended. But, my 7.22.UC1 > > inteprets DBCENTURY value just like the 7.23.UC5. Is there any > > difference between the two? Will I be Year 2000 compliant with 7.22.UC1? > > Depends on what you mean by "Year 2000 compliant". All versions of OnLine > are "Year 2000 compliant" in that they do not store years as 2 digits. What > you get in 7.20 is support for DBCENTURY. If Informix is recommending > certain versions >7.20, it's probably because of bugs in the way DBCENTURY > works or interprets certain dates (I seem to recall a bug with Feb.29, 2000, > and whether it was accepted as a leap year or not). > > June > -- > june_t@hotmail.com > Lost in the wilds of Palo Alto, living on Peanut M&M's