Three Digit Dates in Project Info

[kelunaboy]

I support an older application with new programs that work on the same database. After finishing a module to purge old transaction data from the history table, I ran into a problem building the EXE. It compiles, and then asks if the existing EXE on the drive should be over written. However the drive still has the older version.

I notice the the Project Manager Info list program dates with three digits, ex: May-16-105 3:44 pm. This is FoxPro 2.6a on Windows 95 in a Virtual PC session.

The DOS and Windows dates are correct, and the program runs correctly in interactive mode. I have written eight previous program extensions over the past two years without any problems. This is the first time I noticed the three digit dates. Is the date thing just a visual issue not related to the failure to create the EXE?

Thank you,
Alan Smith
State of Hawaii
DLNR - DBOR

 

[rob444]

The visual 3 digit date is a year 2000 thing of fp 2.6.
FP 2.6 dbf's store the date in 3 bytes in the header.
The year is the present year - 1900 so 2005 becomes 105.

There is no solution to this problem.
Rob.

 

[alvechurchdata]

There is no solution to this problem.

But it doesn't hurt the operation of the program or the way it handles dates.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[kelunaboy]

Thank you for confirming what I see. I was successful in building the EXE by way of creating a new project file.

Mahalo
Alan