Re date year error

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting GCC (Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:44:12 -0500):
[...]
> 6 of the records had followup dates of January 1983 instead of January
> 2006.
[...]
> The call center has 6 operators using this program and the error
> happened with 3 different operators.
>
> Any ideas as to what may cause this intermittent problem?

You mean other than operator error?

Well, 1-Jan-1983 is filePro's "epoch".  Dates are manipulated internally
as the number of days from the epoch[1].  Perhaps you have run into some
combination that causes filePro to treat the date as the epoch itself?
Perhaps doing date math with a blank date field?


[1] See, for example, <http://www.fptech.com/keyformat.htm#Notes>

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