Thanks a lot Pete for this information; i was not aware of these "epoch" dates format
I am going to dig around that I much appreciate your prompt help André Le 19 juil. 2011 à 18:40, Pete a écrit : > Hi Andre, > I don't have a definitive answer for you but this sounds like it is > connected to "epoch" dates which are the number of days since Jan 1, 1970. > I'm guessing that somewhere along the line, your dates are being converted > to the epoch format on the WIndows platform that would certainly cause a > problem for dates prior to 1970. I don't know why that would be different > in Windows than OS X. > > Hope that might help track down the problem. > > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:23 AM, André Bisseret > <andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr>wrote: > >> Bonjour, >> >> I am a Mac user but I recently bought a PC (windows 7) in order to test my >> standalones for windows more quickly. >> >> I am fighting for hours now with the following problem : >> >> In an app., I have a handler that calculates the age from the short birth >> date (thanks to Jim Ault who gave it on the list). >> The birth date is jj/mm/AAAA or jj/mm/AA as well. >> >> This handler works fine on Mac, but not on windows. >> >> On windows, the age is invariably 100 if the birth year < 1970. (with >> JJ/MM/AA or JJ/MM/AAAA (as bad ;-( >> If the birth year > = 1970 then the age is correct. >> >> I tried to play with the centuryCutOff but without any success (on >> windows). >> >> I am not familiar with Windows : what am I missing ? Is it a matter of >> computer setting or should I program differently for windows than for mac !? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance for any help >> >> Best regards from Grenoble >> >> André >> >> P.S. By the way, I used to use a search engine (if I well remember, it was >> in the help menu of livecode) I do not find it any more; has it been >> suppressed ? (or here again, I am missing something !) >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
