Unexpected date behavior in QUIZ

[Deskin, Bob]

How's this sound. Check if your dictionary is CENTURY EXCLUDED. If that's
the case, then although you're allowed to specify a century for the input
format, any century you enter must be equal to the default century. That's
because with CENTURY EXCLUDED PowerHouse only handles dates within the one
century.

So if you have CENTURY EXCLUDED but you changed the default century to 20,
then it used to work when the default century was 19 but now it won't.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org
[mailto:Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 9:13 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Unexpected date behavior in QUIZ


Here's the code:

DEFINE D-START-DATE DATE FORMAT YYYYMMDD = &
    PARM &
    ON ERRORS REPROMPT &
    FORMAT MMDDYYYY &
    PROMPT &
        "Starting date for Schedule Date (MMDDYYYY)? "

Here's the result.

Starting date for Schedule Date (MMDDYYYY)? 12311999
This entry must be a valid date. Please re-enter.
Starting date for Schedule Date (MMDDYYYY)? 12312000
<accepted!!!>

A year 2000 or 2001 date is accepted but year 1999 is not. I've tried this
with Default Century=19 and =20 (not that I expected this to make any
difference) with the same result. This is code that previously did accept a
1999 date.

What am I not seeing? Thanks.
===================
Leonard S. Berkowitz
Perot Health Care Systems
(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care account)
voice: 617-509-1212
fax:   617-509-3737
pager: 781-226-2431


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