XP support for date formats of MM-00-yy in applications

[Diana Sinclair]

Can't find this info in any of the areas/topics/FAQs of
the Microsoft website: I use an office management
software application at work which needs to generate
invoices at the end of every prior month for use in the
subsequent month. Under the DOS version of the software,
we could set the "default" date for all unused/unmodified
invoices for a month to "09-00-03" (for Sept.'03), since
we need the "day" placeholders for when, later in the
month, we set exact day-dates when the invoices will be
used to generate jobs.

We converted a few weeks ago to a "new, improved,
upgraded" Windows version of the software, which
automatically sticks an arbitrary "day" marker ("09-01-
03) into the date for the unused invoices generated for
any given month. This sucks bigtime, since, if the 1st of
the month is a regularly scheduled workday for our
company, every invoice for the entire month shows up on
the first day of the month, and then we have to weed out
everything that isn't actually scheduled for that day.

I should mention that we are a landscape pest control
company, we schedule maintenance on an "ideal" schedule,
so we generate invoices in a batch before the start of
the month in which services are to be done, so that we
can send out "reminder" postcards to customers based upon
the invoice information; and we then date the invoices
and use them as work-tickets for the men in the field.
It's easier than having to create each individual invoice
from scratch when the customer orders the service.

Our software producer claims that Windows XP does not
support a date format of "09-00-03" (I'm just using
September as an example here); is that true, or have they
just not done their "homework" sufficiently?!?!?

Thanks for the help here!!! Diana Sinclair

 

[LVTravel]

The function you describe is specifically written into the application
program you are using and NOT in Windows XP, Windows 2K, 98, ME, 95 or even
DOS. A computer's bios clock (DTC) also does not recognize a "date" of
09-00-03. Try it in your computer. (Start, Run, CMD, Enter, Date 09-00-03
enter)

You need to go back to your software company and have them reprogram the
function you need.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Our software producer claims that Windows XP does not
support a date format of "09-00-03" (I'm just using
September as an example here); is that true, or have they
just not done their "homework" sufficiently?!?!?

XP provides dates - as a conversion of an internal count of days into
dates. September 00 is not a valid date. If the program want a
09-xx-03 to use as a template it should provide it for itself.