fixsuperdates
fixsuperdates

The fixsuperdates statement fixes Panorama 6 SuperDates in current field.

Parameters

No parameters.

Description

This statement fixes Panorama 6 SuperDates in the current field. Use this statement when converting a database from Panorama 6 to Panorama X. It should be run once for any field that contains SuperDates (it will not hurt anything to run it more than once, however).

For example, suppose your Panorama 6 database contains two fields with SuperDates, Departure and Arrival. This statement will fix the data in these fields.

    field Departure
    fixsuperdates
    field Arrival
    fixsuperdates

Note: If you don’t fix the SuperDates in your database, things will mostly still work. However, a SuperDate entered in Panorama 6 will not compare correctly with a SuperDate entered in Panorama X. So for example this program:

    select Departure+3600 > Arrival

may not properly select data if some of the data was entered in Panorama 6, and some of it in Panorama X. The `fixsuperdates` function will fix this problem. If you have any doubts, go ahead and run this statement, it doesn’t hurt to run it more than once. However, don’t run it on any field that doesn’t contain SuperDates.

See Also

- converttimezone( -- converts a time or superdate from one time zone to another.
- regulardate( -- extracts a regular date (number of days from January 1, 4713 B.C.) from a superdate.
- regulartime( -- extracts a regular time (seconds since midnight) from a superdate.
- SuperDates -- date and time combined into a single value.

History

Version | Status | Notes
10.0 | New | New in this version.