Re: Informix and Year 2000 compliance

Posted in 1997

Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich — Tue, 21 Oct 1997 14:07:17 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

ian clark wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is Informix Year 2000 compliant and does it depend on which version of > Informix you use? Yes. Informix stores dates as offsets from a given point in time, therefore any point in time ahead of that one or before that one is simply calculated. The functions are there for display purposes; it doesn't matter how you set DBDATE, dates will always be stored as an offset (number of seconds elapsed since some fixed date, I don't know exactly which date, but it's irrelevant anyway :-). -- Ernesto Hern'ndez-Novich - emhn@telcel.net.ve Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker. One thing is to be the best, and another is to be the most popular. Unix: Live free or die!