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19991109: sfedit and y2k
- Subject: 19991109: sfedit and y2k
- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:13:16 -0700
>From: "Mark J. Laufersweiler" <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199911090827.BAA08520
>Am I wrong to assume that sfedit format can handle a 4 digit year as
>input?
>
> PARM = TMPF;DWPF
>
>
> STN YYYYMMDD/HHMM TMPF DWPF
> BWI 19990426/0400 55.40 42.80
>
>mjl
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> Dr. Mark J. Laufersweiler |
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> University of Oklahoma | then what is the opposite of
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>
Mark,
Your YYYY will fail and create a dattim of 199904/0400.
Sfedit will only read 6 characters for YYMMDD in
$GEMPAKHOME/src/programs/sf/sfedit/sfedta.f line 65:
tim = cdata (2) (1:6) // '/' // cdata (3) (1:4)
Gemlib will assume if YY<20 then the year is 20YY, otherwise 19YY.
Steve Chiswell
