Re: year 2000 question

Posted in 1998

Dilip Kikla — Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:04:42 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

oss96@batelco.com.bh wrote: > > Dear all, > We are planning to implement the "01/01/1980" solution for our 4GL > application .Our screens has 2 digits for year in date field, we are not > going to change this but dates between year 1980 and 1999 will be > interpreted as 1980 and 1999 . > Dates from 1900 and 1970 will be interpreted as 2000 year so 1905 will be > interpreted as 2005 and so on. > Does anybody choose this senario ? Any problems encountered? > > Regards > Ossama Osman I am not sure of the versions you are using. In I-4GL 6.?, Informix is implementing DBCENTURY which will decide how the date should be interpreted. This variable is already implemented on ODB 7.x. Dilip Kikla