[futurebasic] Re: Age thing

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From: Pete <furry@...>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 03:44:53 +1000
>
>Years ago in IB Staz had an article describing an easy way to look at dates,
>age, etc.
>I would like to use this simple code but have run into a problem if the date
>of birth is below 1930.  I'm not sure if the operating system has changed
>some attributes or if I have misinterpreted the code.  I suspect it is
>me.....However, I THINK, that I will have a problem anyway since some of the
>birthdays I will have to enter will be before 1904.  Does anyone have a
>solution.
>Thanks, TJS

1904 only refers to the mac's internal clock and [_Time] which returns 
the number of elapsed seconds since some time in 1904

If I rember rightly, the newer systems can deal with dates in the range 
of 2 billon years or so

hth

pete...


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