Re: Please Help With Y2K Problem

Posted in 1999

Obnoxio The Clown — Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:48:04 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: wtmckown@my-deja.com > >This should be an easy one for one of you Informix techies. I have >recently been given responsibility for a small database that uses an >Informix-SE engine (ver 4.10.UC2) and runs on an SCO OS5 box and am >attempting to test it for Y2K compliance. I have discovered that dates >inserted or referenced with two digit centuries are interpreted by the >engine as 1900 even if the system date is 2000. Is there a setting or >environment variable that is causing the system century to not be the >default? Any ideas on this will be greatly appreciated. Yes there is (DBCENTURY), but not in that version. I think it was only implemented in 5.10 -- your products are *way* out of date. HTH. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com