Re: Newbie Date Question

From: J French (erewhon_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:48:41 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:21:03 -0400, "MikeD" <nobody@nowhere.edu>
wrote:

>
>"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:C5431EDB-5BEC-4916-B2D5-CF4A4BDCAB6B@microsoft.com...
>> My problem is that we deal with two digit years from credit cards and
>loyalty cards and the like, the till operator will enter a two digit year
>from the card if the card is key entered.
>
>Sounds like a training issue to me. Tell the operator to type the extra 2
>digits for the century and the problem is solved. Of course, it's possible
>the field that the operator types the year into only allows for 2 digits. In
>that case, it's a programming issue.

The operator is looking at a card that says: 01/07 mm/yy

To ask them to type in : 01 2007 is just plain daft

Personally I always reformat those to: Jan 2007
So that if the card is expired it is blindingly obvious to the
operator.

Frankly I think the OP is having a brain fart day, they only get 0107
from the card, so they know how to handle successful card reads.