JDATE

[Richard.Gambrell@xula.edu]

Leonard S. Berkowitz wrote:
> Of course the possibility of using JDATE occurred to me. However, my
> assignment is to make existing code compliant for the year 2000, not
to
> improve code that was written 3 or 5 or 7 years ago. If I spent time
> improving code, we would have to rename this project to Y3K <g>

While I can appreciate the need to not get bogged down in complex
changes, don't you think your approach is a little short sighted?
Replacing a few lines with one that is clearer and cleaner, after
checking to see if the intermediate results (in the previous defines)
aren't used elsewhere in the code, doesn't seem like much extra effort
and could save time in later debugging.

Richard Gambrell
Manager of Applications, Xavier U. of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 
work e-mail: richard.gambrell@xula.edu
home e-mail: rgambrel@acm.org