Date:         Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:01:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Seumas Rogan <seumasr@martynia.hrp.arizona.edu>
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From:         Seumas Rogan <seumasr@martynia.hrp.arizona.edu>
Subject:      SPSS dates in V10.05 and V11.0.1
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Hello everyone!

I had a file which contained date fields in MMDDYY in SPSS 10.0.5. All of
the dates occurred in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 or 2002.

I recently upgraded to SPSS 11.0.1 and now have some problems with the
date fields. As far as I can tell, all of the dates in 2000, 2001 and 2002
have been changed to 1900, 1901 and 1902.

I understand from the online help that there is a setting that allows the
user to specify the century range for 2-digit years, but this does not
seem to help me at the moment. I am checking the hardcopies now to make
sure that only the year has been changed, i.e., the month and day are
correct, as I can write syntax to increment the year by 100 and save as a
new date.

I would like to know if anyone else has had the same problem, or if you
would have any advice as to why this happened?


Thanks for any advice or comments!

SR

seumasr@hrp.arizona.edu