Re: Year 2000 Default Behavior

Posted in 1997

Roger Tomas — Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:20:38 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Bob Carts wrote: > > In SQL (ODS 7.22) there is something called DBCENTURY that can be set to > influence how Informix handles 2 digit years. The default setting/behavior > is 'C' which means that Informix will expand the date to the whatever is > closest to the current year. For example if you enter '50' you get 1950, > if you enter '25' you get 2025 and so on. There are other available values > for DBCENTURY that you can find in your SQL reference book. The default > seems like a logical default. I don't think this is supported by Online (eg. 5.X). Anyone know if/how Online will deal with this? ----------- Roger Tomas AG Communication Systems