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  1. Ramendra Singh
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  3. Tuesday, 6 August 2019 07:31 AM UTC
Hi Gurus We have an application where all the date fields are masked DD/MM/YY and when we enter the data 31/01/50, it converts in 31/01/1950 rather than 31/01/2050. Till year 49 it's fine and convert into 2049. Although if I change the masking to YYYY, it saves the value correctly. As there are too many date filed, I was curious to know if this can be managed with some configuration in the application to auto convert dates to 2050. thanks Ramendra
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Marco Meoni Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:11 PM UTC
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Hi Ramendra,

as you probably know from PB doc

"If the year is two digits, the assumption of century follows thisrule: for years between 00 and 49, the first two digits are assumed to be20; for years between 50 and 99, the first two digits are assumed to be19. If your data includes dates before 1950, such as birth dates, alwaysspecify a four-digit year to ensure the correct interpretation."

Now, how do you work around ?

If your DW or edit fields inherit from a common ancestor, say u_dw or u_em or u_sle (do you remember pfc_u_dw from PFC lib?) you can just add code below (for the DW case)

event itemchanged;
If Upper(dwo.type) <> 'COLUMN' Then Return
If Upper(dwo.coltype) = 'DATE' Then
  Date ld_date
  ld_date = Date(data)
  // now take the year and add 50
End If
end event

Best,

.m

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  1. Ramendra Singh
  2. Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:30 PM UTC
Hi Marco



Thank you for your valuable inputs,I believe your recommendation should resolves the problem.



Regards

Ramendra
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Michael Kramer Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 8 August 2019 13:12 PM UTC
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Hi Ramendra,

To sum up Marco's and Matthew's answers:

Custom 2-digit year behavior in your PB app may make it inconsistent with Windows generic behavior. Be careful!

HTH /Michael 

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  1. Ramendra Singh
  2. Tuesday, 13 August 2019 04:10 AM UTC
Hi Michael



Thank you for highlighting it, I will do further research before implementing any of the solution.



Regards

Ramendra

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Matthew Balent Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 6 August 2019 11:44 AM UTC
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You may wish to check the Regional Settings within Windows for the 'Short Date Style'.

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  1. Ramendra Singh
  2. Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:24 PM UTC
Thank you Matthew for your valuable input, I will give it a try and check the outcome.



Regards

Ramendra
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