Re: Off topic: 31 days hath September
Rick Welykochy (rickml@dot.net.au)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:23:08 +1000
Ash Nallawalla wrote:
>
> Just got my Microsoft Communique renewal reminder (no thanks), which advises
> me that my subscription runs out on "31/09/98".
>
> Makes me wonder what type of database would let such a date field to exist.
> Access certainly does not let me key in 31/9/98 (it takes 30/9/98). Surely
> they don't use a text field for dates?
No wonder. This is the softwarehouse that gave us
one Y2K bug in Excel 95 and a different Y2K bug in Excel 97.
Go figure <sigh>
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