On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:48 PM, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> wrote: > > Believe it or not, our 20xx dates are encoded x'9A001' for 2000, and so > on up the alphabet. I wasn't in on this, so I don't know where it > terminates. But x'9F' is the max - 2015. So the world better end in > 2012! <grin> > x'90' 1990 x'9a' 2000 x'9f' 2005 x'a0' 2006 x'aa' 2016 x'af' 2021 x'b0' 2022 x'ba' 2032 x'bf' 2037 x'c0' 2038 x'ca' 2048 x'cf' 2053 x'd0' 2054 x'da' 2064 x'df' 2069 x'e0' 2070 x'ea' 2080 x'ef' 2085 x'f0' 2086 x'fa' 2096 x'ff' 2100
At some point, dump the 20th century data and use 2000 as the base instead of 1900 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
