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Y2K Slap in the Face
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22/03/1999 02:37:13
 
 
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19/03/1999 12:31:56
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Visual FoxPro
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Applications Internet
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Thread ID:
00199762
Message ID:
00200370
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SET CENTURY TO was available in 2.0 --- I still have viable FPD 2.0 apps up and running.

Bonnie

>Well, Calvin, I would say that you have mis-assumed - " if century were set off and a 21st century date were typed in the system would know that the system date was the 21st century .
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>You want to sue people because you didn't read the documentation (which is brief, but says: "SET CENTURY OFF specifies a two-digit year format that includes eight characters and assumes the twentieth century for date calculations. This is the default setting.").
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>Seems pretty clear to me!
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>You might want to check when the SET CENTURY TO came into the language. It may have been FP 2.6, but I really don't know (head crash a few months back eradicated my FPD 2.6a copy and I didn't reinstall). If it was 2.6, then that is a relatively painless upgrade from 2.5
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>Jim N
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>>I have a vertical market app written in FoxPro 2.5 for DOS. I had assumed up to this point that the Y2K problem would go away when the century actually turned over, in other words that if century were set off and a 21st century date were typed in the system would know that the system date was the 21st century and everything would be OK. Now, I ( am I the last idiot left ) find out that FoxPro DOS itself is locked into the 20th century. It does not recognize the 21st Century system date. I now understand why Microsoft is being sued over this. Why have they not provided a patch for this problem. I am in the process of moving users to a VFP version of the product but they may not chose to convert. They may instead chose to sue us for selling them a product that does not even know what century it is in. I forsee a large number of law suits directed against Redmond if they do not fix this problem!
Bonnie Berent DeWitt
NET/C# MVP since 2003

http://geek-goddess-bonnie.blogspot.com
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