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Re: Y2k patch report 1 - CAUTION



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Larry wrote:
> I just tried entering in one of
> my studies a 1999mmdd value instead of the 99mmdd that I was using, and it
> DOES NOT WORK - bombs completely!

Ok, that answers one of the questions. You have to use 6 digit dates in
EL. It still might be ok as long as EL recognizes 00 as year 2000 and
can accept 00 as in input *and* output it. Seems like I read on their
web page that they were moving the cutoff date up to something like year
xx30 (i forget the exact year) so EL would assume that year 20 was 2020
and year 40 was 1940.

With b19.6, when I tried juliantodate(datetojulian(991231)+1) it output
1000101 (should be 000101). The change to EL *should* be trivial but you
never know until you try. Thanks for being a beta tester, Larry. :-)

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   Dennis