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From: "E. Allen Siebold" <>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Date Format]
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:05:50 -0400


Bill,
you wrote:
| Yes, a couple of bytes adds up when you have 6,000 individuals. Think
| how many times you enter a date for each individual. Birth, christening,
| marriage, death, for starters. Do the math |and you'll see what I mean.

An excellent example of how we got into the Y2K problem -- who needs the
century numbers, they just take up space. :>)

Seriously, you may find problems sorting. Computers are very dumb when it
comes to sorting. "2" is not at all the same as "02" to the computer.
Without the initial digit the computer will count "1 2 20 21 22..... 3 30 31
..." and so on. With the initial "0" the computer will count "01 02 03 04 05
etc., the way "it should be."

Generally you will have no problems, but the amount of space it takes is
totally insignificant in today's computers. And no, I don't have a bazillion
gigabyte hard drive myself. I have a modest machine that is no longer even
ranked among the top 50 of computer capabilities.

Memory, really, is cheap. Don't cut corners here.

Allen


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From: Bill Potts <>
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Subject: [Fwd: Date Format]

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| Margo, Tim, Linda, and all,
| I concur with the DDMMMYYYY format and use it, but have a question. Why
| is it neccessary to use a "0" to preceed the single digit date? I am
| deleting that as it uses storage space for no good reason I can see.
| Yes, a couple of bytes adds up when you have 6,000 individuals. Think
| how many times you enter a date for each individual. Birth, christening,
| marriage, death, for starters. Do the math and you'll see what I mean.
| Bill
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