calculating exact age

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Thu Nov 25 08:28:46 PST 2004


John Esak wrote:
[...]
> > As long as PFCMARK is set properly, you can use 2-digit-year dates into
> > the 21st century.  However, you are still limited to a 100-year range,
> > so if you have a birthday in 1915, you can't also have a loan payoff
> > date in 2020.
> 
> Before anyone chooses to bash filePro/ken for this seeming hassle. It is
> exactly the same thing on any platform/system/shell. In Windows, for
> example, the PFCMARK is set exactly the same way with a 100 year window that
> dates work inside. Batch scripts and, etc. can not have a birthdate inside
> the 100 years and a loan payoff date outside it.... either. :-)

Well, I would hope that everyone here realizes that two decimal digits
can only hold 100 different values.  ;-)

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