From: eva_remove_this_ns@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/28
Date: 1998-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eva_remove_this_ns-2810981000420001@ppp42.s9.pgh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36365724.EF1CC215@maths.unine.ch
In article <36365724.EF1CC215@maths.unine.ch>,
Gautier de Montmollin <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> wrote:
> Someone in an hydrological bureau had the same shock today reading that
> LRM topic in AdaHelp, but because of the 1901 problem: many archived time
> series begin before 1901... (hydrology, geography etc.) => Calendar is
> useless for it !
The problem is also important for genealogical research, in which dates
hundreds of years in the past are needed. I've long represented dates
in genealogy records as YYYY.MMDD, usually in a text field. Note that
dates so represented sort properly, whether stored as text strings or as
decimal numbers.
Art Evans
Make the obvious fix to my address to reply to me.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-19 0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
[not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-10-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-26 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues (well, not really...) Dave Wood
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dennison
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1998-10-27 0:00 ` John Herro
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-29 0:00 ` system
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-08 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-02 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr [this message]
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1998-10-23 0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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