Gopi asks
>
>Question : Do you need (how important it is) to  have a new CI variable for
>           four-digit year, having 1997 for Year 1997, 2000 for Year 2000,
>           and so on?. If you need, what would be the better name for the
>           variable? (one suggestion is : HPYEAR4).
>

I think a single fully specified date/time would be very useful:-

ccyymmdd hh:mm:ss:ms = 19991231 23:59:59:99 = Armaggedonoutahere :)


We could slice up the bits we need from this.
The problem with the current formats (AFAIK) are that they vary
according to the size of the digits, 1 vs 11.

Just my little 2c worth.
Neil

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