Year 2000 Compliance - Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Reference

Year 2000 compliance

How dates are stored
The problem of handling dates, in particular year values beyond the year
2000, is a significant issue for the computer industry.
This section examines the year 2000 compliance of Adaptive Server
Anywhere. It illustrates how date values are handled internally by Adaptive
Server Anywhere, and how Adaptive Server Anywhere handles ambiguous
date information, such as the conversion of a two digit year string value.
Users of Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere and its predecessors can be
assured that dates are handled and stored internally in a manner not adversely
effected by the transition from the 20th century to the 21st century.
Consider the following measurements of Adaptive Server Anywhere year
2000 compliance:
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Adaptive Server Anywhere always returns correct values for any legal
arithmetic and logical operations on dates, regardless of whether the
calculated values span different centuries.
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At all times, the Adaptive Server Anywhere internal storage of dates
explicitly includes the century portion of a year value.
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The operation of Adaptive Server Anywhere is unaffected by any return
value, including the current date.
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Date values can always be output in full century format.
Many of the date–related topics summarized in this section are explained in
greater detail in other parts of the documentation.
Dates containing year values are used internally and stored in Adaptive
Server Anywhere databases using either of the following data types:
Chapter 7 SQL Data Types
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