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Article #710Re: yr 2000 compliant
From: Keith G. Chuvala (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00
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> is vdbase a year 2000 compliant product You bet. Well, to be more accurate, the .DBF format has always stored date fields in CCYYMMDD format, and i 7.01 we have the SET EPOCH command to set the baseline for century shifting. That is not to say every dBASE application is automatically Y2K compliant, of course. I'm struggling now against a YYMMDD scheme where dates are stored in character fields, and so require conversion. So if your apps and tables use date type fields, the work required is quite easy. There have been a couple of apps where I've already SET CENTURY ON so that the century is displayed by default. kgc
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