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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:36 -0500
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Glenn J. Koster, Sr.,
> Tom wrote:
>
> > Growthpower uses a nasty Kludge for Sorted Dates. 991231 is followed by
> > A00101. Jan 2000 thru Dec 2009 is A00101 to A91231. Jan 2010 thru Dec
> > 2019 is B00101 to B91231. And so on.
>
> I beg to differ, I don't feel that the "A0" formatted date is a "nasty
> Kludge".  In fact, it is a worthy candidate for most ingenious Y2K success
> stories not requiring date windowing.

Would you settle for "nice kludge"? ;-).

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on
delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is
an eternal uproar.
                        -- da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519)

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