Re: Dates before 1940

"Lindsay Graham [email protected] [eccopro]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.eccopro
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks, Friedhelm and r634718 -- that's pretty much what I had expected, 
but I thought I'd ask <g>.

I was using Friedhelm's method previously and will continue to do so, as 
Birthdays is the only context in which the issue is relevant for me.  I 
don't really have the need (or the time) to explore r634718's 
suggestions further.

Lindsay


On 1/10/14 02:32, r634718 wrote:
>
> Regarding dates.  July 1, 1940 is the earliest date that Ecco can 
> enter as a date type variable.  If you want to enter dates earlier 
> than this, the only way I know of you could do it is to enter it as a 
> text... e.g. "1/27/1921"
>
> Of course you would then lose the ability to use Ecco's built in 
> features for recurring dates, date arithmetic, etc.  You can, however 
> build in those capabilities to some extent using the text fields by 
> doing your own scripting if you have lots of time on your hands.
>
> <snip>
>
>
>
> 

On 1/10/14 00:59, Friedhelm Dohmann [email protected] [eccopro] wrote:
>
> Same problem 14 years ago. So we decided to add the birth years to the 
> TLI in parentheses.
>
> Birthday Folder
>
> Friedhelm
>
> On 9/30/2014 10:37 AM, Lindsay Graham [email protected] [eccopro] 
> wrote:
>>
>> Ecco does not accept dates prior to 1940, and I recall that was an 
>> issue for me when I used Ecco more seriously a few years ago.  Now 
>> back using the latest EccoPro and EccoExt -- has anybody found a 
>> workaround for the date limitation?
>>
>> Lindsay Graham
>> Canberra, Australia
>>
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