From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Ed Falis Subject: Re: Software Engineering News Brief Date: 1996/11/06 Message-ID: <3280B2FA.391C@thomsoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194924073 sender: news@thomsoft.com references: <55dr50$ch1@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <32805050.417820504@news> to: David Bradley content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Thomson Software Products mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Date: 1996-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David, The predefined "date" type keeps 4 digits (actually a subrange of 4 digit dates covering roughly a coupl ehundred years). If you want to use something like a julian date, you'd just define your own type and use it the way you wanted to.