[HP3000-L] QUIZ/QTP Differences?

[Chris Sharman]

It looks to me very like the 2nd (QTP) run is assuming year 1904, not 2004.
Check out the default century etc in the default dictionary.

Chris Sharman

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> From: Harrington, Don [mailto:don.harrington@boeing.com]
> Sent: 12 April 2002 22:25
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> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] QUIZ/QTP Differences?
> 
> 
> Hmm.  Well, the definitions for the START-DATE, NEW-DATE and 
> (MY-)CHRON-SEQ
> are the same in both the QUIZ report and the QTP process.
> 
> Don Harrington
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joan_Entwistle@tufts-health.com
> [mailto:Joan_Entwistle@tufts-health.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:25 PM
> To: Harrington, Don
> Cc: HP3000-L@RAVEN.UTC.EDU
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] QUIZ/QTP Differences?
> 
> 
> 
> Well, I finally located our powerhouse documentation, and here is the
> definition of the days function:
> 
> If the century prefix is 19 or greater, DAYS converts the number of
> days since and including Monday, January 1, 1900. If the century
> prefix is less than 19, the date is converted to a negative number that
> represents the days prior to Sunday, December 31, 1899.
> 
> So, I'm guessing that in the Quiz report there is no century, and it
> assumes 19 for century (like in pre-y2k), but in the qtp, the date does
> contain the century, or that QTP has been told to assume 20 for century.
> 
> Here is what Quiz does on our system:
> 
> > def days1 num = days(040101)
> 
> > def days2 num = days(20040101)
> > rep days1 days2
> 
> 
>   DAYS1    DAYS2
> 
>      1461    37986
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Joan
> 
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