Hello,

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 10:03:59 +0100,
Olivier Mascia wrote:

OM> r> If and when IBPP supports the full range of dates, where can I get to
OM> r> know about it. Would hte best place be Ibpp.org or is there any other
OM> r> newsgroup where I can keep track of the changes?
OM> r>
OM> r> Date of birth of people are more often before 1.1.1970, so full
OM> r> export of data is somewhat crippled without IBPP conforming to the
OM> r> dates.

Correction on what I said earlier (my memory chips are sometimes a bit
floppy): as it is today and for the last 3 years, IBPP should support
the following range of dates : 1 Jan 1900 to 31 Dec 9999.

That's not the full range that InterBase/Firebird support, yes, but that
should not have been a reason for a problem with birthdates, except you
need Abraham Lincoln or Victor Hugo birthday in your db.

I will have to review this carefully, there must be a bug somewhere if
dates < 1970 gave you an issue.

Can we move any followup to this conversation to ibpp-discuss own list,
where it belongs ? This is out-of-topic here.

Thanks !

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Best Regards,
Olivier Mascia
http://www.ibpp.org