Re: Fun with date calculations in VFP

Author: Gene Wirchenko

Posted: 2018-05-30 at 21:03:58

At 12:37 2018-05-21, Vince Teachout <teachv@taconic.net> wrote:

>On 05/20/18 3:31 PM, Ted Roche wrote:

>>On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote:

>>

>>> thedate=date(9999,12,31) && Handle this extreme case.

>>And that, kids, is why we call it "The Y10K crisis..."

>

>I looking forward to all the $$$$ I'm going to make when people call

>me in from retirement to fix all their old VFP programs before

>midnight 9999! Can we say "Gouging rates?"

"Gouging rates!"

Yup!

Now, you say it.

>nb: Don't lose vfp install disk before then!

Is there any version of VFP that handles dates after

9999? There was an early -- the first? -- version of dBASE III Plus

that handled dates with years up to 32767.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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