L. J. Cook schrieb:
> In all of the excitement about Y2K, a fundamental (and related) problem
> with most database software seems to have been overlooked.  That is the
> inability of common programs such as Excel and Works to handle dates before
> 1900, which limits their utility to historians and historical
> archaeologists.  It is possible to enter the year as a numerical field, but
> this separates it from the month/day, and causes sorting problems.  It also
> reqiures additional fields, which is cumbersome in preparing title chains,
> an essential component of site examinations on historical archaeological
> sites.  Has anyone encountered database/spreadsheet software that is Y 1.9
> K compliant, or is this just a Microsoft problem?
>
had trouble doing timelines with something which came with wordperfect 6 - was
one of these wizards set up to do timelines automatically, but not before 1980
or so... not sure if they've changed or not
 
geoff carver
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