The members of the Adager R&D Labs have been working hard on the design
and implementation of an Adager subsystem that will help you manage your
"date data" (none too soon, now that the end of the 1900s is upon us).
 
We would like to ask for your help in helping us understand your needs so
we can help you better.
 
 
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Adager will have two new commands: EXAMINE DATE and CHANGE DATE.
 
Examine Date is very useful for discovering date information that you
may need to clean up. As a matter of fact, Change Date (see below) will
require a run of Examine Date before it does the actual changes.
 
Change Date does the actual conversion from one date format (for
instance, one that only supports dates up to 1999) to another format
(for instance, one that supports dates beyond 1999).
 
 
Supported source formats:
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   1. HP Calendar dates.  16-bit logicals (IMAGE K1) with year-of-
      century (YY) in the 1st seven bits and day-of-year (DDD) in
      the last nine bits.
 
   2. Powerhouse dates.  16-bit logicals (IMAGE K1) with YY in the 1st
      seven bits, month (MM) in the next four bits and day-of-month
      (DD) in the last five bits.
 
   3. MANMAN dates.  16-bit integers (IMAGE I1) denoting days offset
      from January 1, 1973.
 
   4. AQ/3000 dates.  16-bit logicals (IMAGE K1) denoting days offset
      from January 1, 1930.
 
   5. Data Express 16-bit dates.  Integers (IMAGE K1) denoting days
      offset from January 1, 1900.
 
   6. Binary YYMMDD dates.  32-bit integers (IMAGE I2) which convert
      to 6-digit dates in the YYMMDD format.
 
   7. Binary YYYYMMDD dates.  32-bit integers (IMAGE I2) which convert
      to 8-digit dates in the YYYYMMDD format.
 
   8. Data Express 32-bit dates.  32-bit integers (IMAGE K2) denoting
      days offset from January 1, 1900.
 
   9. Decimal YYMMDD dates.  6-byte fields (IMAGE Z6) containing
      6-digit dates in the YYMMDD format.
 
  10. Decimal YYYYMMDD dates.  8-byte fields (IMAGE Z8) containing
      8-digit dates in the YYYYMMDD format.
 
  11. IMAGE/SQL (ALLBASE/SQL) dates.  128-bit fields (IMAGE Z8)
      containing YYYYMMDD information in the format prescribed by
      HP's ALLBASE/SQL Lab.
 
We would like to hear from developers who are using any of the source
data types already accomodated, as well as other source date formats
not yet accomodated.
 
 
Supported target formats:
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Supported target formats are all in the year-month-day YYYYMMDD
format stored either in binary as 32-bit integers (IMAGE I2) or
in 8 decimal digits (IMAGE Z8) or in 128-bit (IMAGE K8) fields
satisfying the ALLBASE/SQL date format as prescribed by HP.
 
If you have need for any other target format, please contact us.
 
 
Volunteers for our Beta-test program:
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Please contact us if you are interested in participating.  You will get,
as a bonus, free consulting on your date-conversion procedures!
 
Fred White is the project leader.  You may contact him at [log in to unmask]
or via the regular Adager world-wide toll-free telephone and fax network.
 
Please hurry!  The year 2000 is upon us!
 
 
 
Thanks for your help.
 
 
Alfredo
 
 
 
F. Alfredo Rego
Adager Labs
Sun Valley, Idaho 83353-3000  --  U.S.A.