Re: CTime's year not below 1970??
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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It is interesting to note that while the CTime documentation gives a
partial answer to the
upper bound, it does not mention the lower bound at all, apparently
thinking this is
obvious. I've added this to my MSDN Errors And Omissions document.
Hi Joe,
The first page of the CTime docs states:
"The upper date limit is 12/31/3000. The lower limit is 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
GMT."
Cheers,
Mark
--
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
joe
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:23:05 +0200, "Guido Franzke" <guidof73@yahoo.de>
wrote:
Hello NG,
I use CTime to show birthday dates. One person is born 1967. CTime throws
the exception "Invalid argument". I can read in help that CTime only
handles
years from 1970 to 3000. Why? Maybe someone here can explain. Do I have to
implement my own date class now?
Regards,
Guido
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