It was hard before, but now I'll never believe a computer printed date again.

I wonder what auditors will think?  Need a log file entry for the change of
date for the application?

Of course, dates always could be artificially set.

Richard G.

Tom Hula wrote:
>
> Stan Sieler wrote:
> >
> > John asks:
> >
> > > We need to run a report from last year by changing the date on our HP3000.  Is
> > > there a way to do that without doing a complete shutdown.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > <plug>
> >
> > Precisely one of the reasons that date simulation tools like HourGlass,
> > will be useful past 2000-01-01!
> >
> > http://www.allegro.com/hourglass2000/hp3000
> >
> > </plug>
> >
>
> I have already used Hourglass for all sorts of operational situations
> where the date was important and it needed to be some other date than
> TODAY...including a situation with a 3rd-party AR package that has a bug
> in the statement print program where it needs the date to be the same as
> the statement date.  Since it is 3rd-party and it so often runs near
> midnight, I have taken advantage of Hourglass every month just for this
> one problem.
>
>                         Tom Hula

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