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Why would someone use a set century off command
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Visual FoxPro
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00261152
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>Hi Joseph.
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>My reason for displaying all 4 digits of the year is so that the user knows absolutely for sure that the date they entered was correctly interpreted by the computer. If only two 2 digits are displayed, they will not be sure. But I know we differ on this (from a previous thread).


Evan,

You and I are on the same track. I would no more show a user "990903" as a date than I would show "seph" as a name when it is "Joseph". Think of it that way and suddenly the century issue becomes pretty silly.
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