From: jimgregg@aol.com
Subject: Re: Software Engineering News Brief
Date: 1996/11/05
Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19961105175300.MAA11951@ladder01.news.aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 55nqea$32a@news2.delphi.com
>The standard says nothing about external, human readable
>input/output formats, however, and as an international
>standard it could hardly demand conformance to, say,
>"MM/DD/YY" or "Fifth Day of November, Year of Our
>Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six". ;)
So if you are using a package that provides utility subprograms
for converting between Calendar.Time and "mmddyy", check the
implementation. It may use 1900 in conversion expressions.
I have a package called DATES, provided by a compiler vendor,
that has this problem.
Jim Gregg
Software Compositions
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1996-11-05 0:00 Software Engineering News Brief tmoran
1996-11-05 0:00 ` jimgregg [this message]
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Stefan.Landherr
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Tom Reid
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Paul Eggert
1996-11-11 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Rodgers
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Dave Sparks
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Paul Eggert
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Paul Eggert
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Martin Tom Brown
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1996-11-12 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-11-09 0:00 tmoran
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-07 0:00 tmoran
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1996-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-01 0:00 Software Engineering News
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-11-05 0:00 ` David Bradley
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-11-06 0:00 ` John Cosby
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1996-11-07 0:00 ` caip.rutgers.edu!halasz
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