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Re: Y2k and TS4



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Have you tried 1000101?  The patch addresses a 7 digit date, counting the 
number of years since 1900.  Your date would be jan 1, 1900.


At 09:56 AM 12/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I discovered today that the Y2k patch Omega released for TradeStation 4.0
>doesn't seem to be working properly. Specifically, TS did not recognize any
>ASCII dates above 991231. For example 000101 causes an error and TS will
>refuse to plot any chart with such a date in the data. I downloaded and
>reinstalled the Y2k patch and most recent build again (just to be sure I was
>up to date) but the problem did not go away. I did try to load this up on
>TS2000i and was able to chart the data, although the program locked up the
>first time for some reason.
>
>I like to put intermarket data and forecasts in data2 when I study the
>markets, and these are almost always in ASCII format. I've got TS2000i
>installed on my computer as well, but I've been spending a lot of time on
>the old version because its so much faster. It looks like I might not have
>this option in about a week or so. Omega says they plan to support TS4 into
>the year 2000, but it seems a little late in the year to be having problems
>like this. Has anyone been able to load year 2000 data into TS4 some other
>way?
>
>Erik Been
>Market Analytics
>www.marketanalytics.net

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