COBOL, Dates and the Year 2000

Mo Budlong

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The only publication dedicted to COBOL and the Year 2000, this technical handbook addresses all phases of a Year 2000 project from planning to testing. It includes discussions of the various approaches to date handling and tips and tricks on locating dates, doing date calculations and date handling. There are thousands of lines of tested utilities and routines for use in a Year 2000 project. Topics covered include; Common Date Pitfalls, routines for data entry, validation, conversions and system date, Fiscal Date handling Routines, Dates in Files and on screens, Gregorian and Julian Dates, common date handling routines for day differences, adding days to dates, days of the week, comparing dates, and more.

348 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 1996