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Ok, didn't know about the accuracy limitations.
Convert the date to a string, test the length (990101 is 6 long, 1000101 is
7).
Remove the 1 from 100,101 (string length 7).
Prepend the string with either 19 or 20.
Output to ascii.
That should do a much better job.
Robert
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Robert Linders
Orlando, FL
email: mugsnug@xxxxxxxxx
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Fritz" <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Robert Linders" <mugsnug@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Need to Make ASCII file with correct Date
> > Just yesterday I posted an asii indicator (creates an ascii file).
> > Instead of date just output date + 19000000 and it will have the
> > compleat year !
>
> Try it. You might not like the results.
>
> TS (all versions) uses 16-bit floating point numbers to represent
> all numeric values. 16-bit floats have about 6.5 - 7 decimal digits
> of accuracy. YYYYMMDD requires 8. That's one of the big reasons why
> Omega decided to use the 100 = 2000 date format.
>
> For example:
>
> Date Date+19000000
> 1011119 20011120
> 1011120 20011120
> 1011121 20011120
> 1011126 20011126
> 1011127 20011128
>
> Gary
>
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