Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-09-22
1999-07-20
Amsbury, Wayne
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 1, 707 6, 707100, 707101, 707102, G06F 1730
Patent
active
059268140
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for selectively modifying date fields of a target application program processes date data converted from the Gregorian calendar to an inventive calendar system. Specifically, the system includes an identifying application program, an analyzing application program, a code generator and a processor. The identifying application program is interfaced with the target application program for identifying field source code representing each date field in the target application program. This is achieved by analyzing source code of the target application program. The analyzing application program analyzes each field source code to determine the number of year-digits available in each date field. The code generator modifies the analyzed field source code representing the date fields capable of accepting only two-digit years to modified source code representing date fields capable of accepting three-digit years. The processor replaces the analyzed field source code representing the two-digit year date fields with corresponding modified source code. In addition, the system may include an input for inputting Gregorian date data having two or four-digit years, a first subroutine program for interpreting the inputted Gregorian date data to generate a respective Gregorian calender year, and a second subroutine program for selectively converting each generated Gregorian calender year to a corresponding date data representing an inventive calender year having three-digit years.
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Alam Shahid
Amsbury Wayne
Consist International
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