Date math again...

[Bob Stockler]

Joe Chasan wrote (on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:27:06PM -0500):

| On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:57:29PM -0500, Bob Stockler wrote:
| > 
| > I think that would be a lot less expensive of programmer (and CPU)
| > time, involving programmer time but once a year and much less CPU
| > and HD time doing lookups.
| 
| sorry to disagree - and as a programmer lord knows i shouldn't thumb 
| my nose at a lifetime of revenue from such fodder, but i just don't
| think things like that should be hardwired in process tables, regardless
| of the cost in CPU cycles.
| 
| what happens when programmer retires/dies/disappears/gets in disagreement 
| with management, etc?  will filePro have to lose one of their shrinking
| customer flock just because no filePro programmers can be found in time?

OK, so once a year the user of the program has to enter the
holidays in a "holiday" file.  Last year sometime he would
have had to enter 12/26/2005 and 01/02/2006 to it.  After
the holidays are entered, have a process in that file write
the CALLed table.

Bob

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