[futurebasic] Re: Age thing

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From: BMichael <BMichael@...>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:22:36 EST
>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.

The problem isn't really with the date, it's with DATE2SECS returning a 
"negative" value. I've dealt with this before by "cheating" and adding 50 
years or so to all my dates, then subtracting later. Of course, this just 
_changes_ the range of "working" dates...

Bill