handling incomplete dates

Alan Harvey aharvey at georgiasouthern.edu
Wed Jan 9 08:00:45 PST 2008


Ack, I'd forgotten that. I'll have to handle that as well. Thanks!

On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:20 AM, David Thompson wrote:

>> The person who originally entered the data dealt with
>>> this in a variety of ways ("0/4/32", "April 1932", etc.)
>
> Something else to keep in mind if you are still considering
> converting this field to a date field is that the year 2032 is closer
> to today's date than 1932, and with international settings set for
> the United States, the second number is the day of the month, so
> changing "0/4/32" to "1/4/32" would give you a date that Panorama
> wouldn't consider to be problematic, but it would be interpreted as
> January 4, 2032.
>
> Dave
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