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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 DStan34930@xxxxxxx wrote:
> This is good. One caution that comes to mind though is that any
> ascii data files created from EL using the date function for the
> date column would be unreadable by any other software.
>
> 1000101,935,1400.00 ???
Oh NO -- another unique-to-Omega kludge - two or three digit dates,
depending on which side of 2000 they are on. Soon they will claim this as
a proprietary feature of TS :-). Not only that, but only the Omega data
site will have data in this wierd format - another way to lock users into
Omega-only.
Note that 9xxMMDD is larger than may be valid in single precision. This
means that one cannot use a simple 4 --> 3 digit truncation; if before
2000, it has to be 9x, not 9xx. I don't think any other reasonable
software will work this way.
Isn't anyone besides me tired of all the work-arounds that we have to do?
C'mon, Omega, do it right in the first place - use double precision.
Think: double precision, double precision, double precision.....
Larry
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