Hello Randall!
12 May 97 09:15, Randall Bosma wrote to All:
Some comments
 RB> display, and output of dates. HOWEVER!! FP is the only (AFAIK)
 RB> xbase tool that doesn't provide a command or function to change
 RB> the assumed century. dBase and Clipper each have a "SET EPOCH TO"
Since when does Clipper and dBase have this command? Earlier versions that I 
know hasn't it. And the newest version of FoxPro (VFP 5.0) has a similar 
command. SET CENTURY TO XX ROLLOVER YY with XX the default century and YY the 
year after it skips to then next century.
 RB> 1999 -- for instance, I've set my apps to "SET EPOCH TO 1950", so
In VFP this would be: SET CENTURY TO 19 ROLLOVER 50.
 RB> a rather glaring omission in FP, but I doubt if M$ has much
 RB> incentive to invest in FP.... You could write a function of your
They invest enough in the VFP product, but had stopped investing in the old 
FP versions (sigh, such  a shame).
 RB> Y2K issue, I've never seen the SET EPOCH command mentioned.  Can
 RB> anyone enlighten me?
I just did.
Groetjes,
   Wim
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