Yes - I agree - the point is to phase out Julian. I think phasing out
'USA' (or European) is harder because it's used as a 'shorthand' date so
many places.
I suggested to Howard offline that using DATE('B') (Base) is probably the
best way to deal with date manipulation (the common reason for using Julian)
and doesn't have the difficulties of spanning years that Julian does when
doing calculations.
For example:
today = date('B')
lastweek = today - 7
Say DATE('S', lastweek, 'B')
Would spit out the the sorted date (yyyymmdd) for one week ago. This works
whether I issue it on Jan 2 or Jun 2.
Scott
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Ethan Lanz <llel...@gmail.com> wrote:
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