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>Brought this subject up a couple months ago --not a return peep from
>anyone. Well, do we junk the version 4 of MS; forced to update to a newer
>version? When entering dates on a stock or commodity at present, it's
>limited to 11/17/97, for instance. Don't we have to enter a four digit
>date for year 2000 and above? No problem with my other stock programs
>such as Right Time Stock Program--it's already setup with the four digit
>dates. Any ideas? T.C.
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In version 4 the date is held as a floating point number so that 19Nov97 is
stored as 971119. 01Jan2000 would be 1000101 in this system. Maybe MS4.5
handles this correctly. I use MSU to import my data and have assumed I
have two years to change my software. (I download my daily data and store
it in a Dataflex database, then I export the data again in ASCII for MSU to
do it's thing.) Even if MS4.5 still runs I would expect most data update
programs to crash.
Why don't you set up a test system and feed it some year 2000 data? Let us
know what happens.
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