>We use a 2-digit year in the YMD format.
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>We use the YMD format because that is the way the company has always entered dates.
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>We use 2 digits for the year because it is faster to enter.
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>We use SET CENTURY TO ... ROLLOVER
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>Maybe I am missing something, but I don't see a problem with this...is there something I am missing?
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>Joe
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How do you handle when someone is born in, say 09/03/99? Is that person a newborn baby, or someone that's 100 years old? That's the kind of stuff that leads to 105 year old people getting their Kindergarten class assignments in the mail.

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>>I am doing some y2k sniffing on a third party product and have come across several set century off commands? Why would someone use this command? I know their has to be a reason.
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>>Thanks
>>Darren Mc Dowell