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Re: yr 2000 compliant

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From: Keith G. Chuvala (TeamB)
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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