Re: Forms 3 Year 2000 Bug

I will not pretend to be an expert on the subject... but look at
http://www.orafaq.org/faqmain.htm they talk about a trigger for forms 3.0........

calderproj wrote:

> Is there anybody else out there come across
> a bug in Forms 3 which allows
> the entry of 0000 in the year element of a
> date.
>
> ie 13-FEB-0000.
>
> Forms accepts this as a valid date and
> stores it onto the database as
> 13-FEB-0000. However on retrieval back into
> Forms the date is shown as
> null.
>
> A serious problem which Oracle say is too
> complicated to resolve in the
> twilight years of Forms 3.
>
> There must be others out there which still
> use Forms 3 who have
> discovered this problem. If so I would like
> to hear your views.
>
> Disgruntled of Halifax.
Received on Fri Feb 13 1998 - 00:00:00 CET