Y2K - am I missing something?

[pickerij@norbord.com]

Shawn asks ...

>version 8.19C which is the "more y2k compliant" version doesn't seem to   
be
>able to handle some basic functions, maybe I'm just missing something.
>Being Y2K compliant doesn't necessarily mean that you have centuries in
>your dates, it just means you can deal with the century.  We are leaving
>are dates in 6 characters because we can, but the DAYS function doesn't
>appear to work correctly on dates that are in the new century.  No   
amount
>of coaxing  with CENTURY INCLUDED or otherwise seems to help.
>
>any ideas?

The safest thing to do would be to expicitly add the century to your six   
digit dates before using the days function. Your code will look a little   
long winded but it will work. Try the following:

  days(addcentury(sixdigitdateitem,century(sixdigitdateitem)))

This assumes that the dictionary options indicates century included and   
input century 19 from 50 (or some other pivot year of your choice).

John Pickering
Toronto  

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