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