how to make DEFAULT CENTURY be the current century

[Chris Sharman]

>Actually Speedware will assume all parts of a date that are left out, that
>includes the month, year, and century.  This makes data entry of dates very
>fast and easy  Inserting the current values if not supplied is a very
>logical method of dealing with date input.  I don't even understand what
>argument you are trying to make about century.  Remember the premise is
>that the century is inserted by the software for the current value if not
>supplied, it can always be supplied by the user.

Are you saying that it's useful for '98 & '00 to mean 1998 & 1900 for the next
eleven months, then 2098 & 2000; or are you saying that users are perfectly
happy to have to specify a century for dates less than 12 months away ?

Powerhouse (as of 7.10.G) allows the dictionary manager to specify a hundred
year window in which the given two digit year lies, allowing us to specify
that a 2 digit date should have a century applied to make it between 1950
and 2049. This seems far more useful than applying the current or any other
fixed century, as Speedware apparently does & Powerhouse used to.

It would be nice if similar 'windowing' could be applied to the year too: the
number of times lately I've typed "$ dir/sin=1-dec" or similar and got nothing!
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Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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