Gareth Horton
July 12th, 2002, 01:29 PM
Viv wrote:
> I have found it necessary to change the data types of date fields I am extracting to 'Character' as our data contains a very wide range of dates (over a couple of centuries). Does anyone know what date range Monarch supports and if this is likely to be changed in the future ?
Viv - Monarch supports the years 1601 to 2100 (when year is expressed as YYYY), 1900
to 2098 (when expressed as 2 digits).
I'm not sure what the technical limits might be for this to be extended, but will submit this as a possible
enhancement to consider
Gareth Horton
Datawatch Corporation
> I have found it necessary to change the data types of date fields I am extracting to 'Character' as our data contains a very wide range of dates (over a couple of centuries). Does anyone know what date range Monarch supports and if this is likely to be changed in the future ?
Viv - Monarch supports the years 1601 to 2100 (when year is expressed as YYYY), 1900
to 2098 (when expressed as 2 digits).
I'm not sure what the technical limits might be for this to be extended, but will submit this as a possible
enhancement to consider
Gareth Horton
Datawatch Corporation