[111] in Project_DB
Re: 4-digit year rejected by project-db
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri May 2 18:09:23 1997
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:09:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Cc: project-db@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <v02140b08af8ff8dc01e5@[18.177.0.17]>
Excerpts from mail: 2-May-97 4-digit year rejected by pr.. Tim
McGovern@MIT.EDU (238*)
> Entering a project date in the form 4/1/1997 causes an Oracle error.
> I have been assured that Oracle is y2k compliant, so it can properly
> handle four-digit years.
Yea, I saw it a while ago, but was trying not to say anything about it.
Your suggestion has been logged. Maybe if we reimplement pdb in Bruce
Lewis's 'beautiful report language' system, we'll get a really GOOD date
parser installed.
Thanks for the suggestion.
-wdc
