<html><head></head><body>I believe changing cmark would require you to rebuild any indexes built on date fields with two digit years.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 30, 2022 8:17:47 AM EDT, Fairlight via Filepro-list <filepro-list@lists.celestial.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">PFCMARK was a gross hack which never should have been seriously considered.<br>Everyone should have been using 4-digit years and doing their logic based<br>on those, then simply truncating their display fields to 2-digit years.<br><br>m-><br><br><br>On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 01:53:31AM -0400, Brian K. White via Filepro-list thus spoke:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Changing PFCMARK changes the meaning of data that's already been recorded.<br>To me that means you should almost never change it. Once per career maybe,<br>or only on new installs with no old data.<br><br>Really if it were up to me PFCMARK would have a special value EE or XX or<br>something that means instead of setting the meaning of a 2-digit year, it<br>throws an error any time a 2-digit year is encountered at all.<br><br>But I think it's bad advice to be changing pfcmark lightly or frequently.<br><br><div class="k9mail-signature">-- <br>bkw<br><br><br><br>On 3/29/22 16:37, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">Here is a script I used on a Linux server to always keep PFCMARK 10<br>years ahead.<br><br>cat /usr/local/bin/SET_PFCMARK<br>YEAR=`date '+%G'`;<br>YEAR=$((YEAR + 10));<br>PFCMARK="${YEAR:2:2}";<br>export PFCMARK<br><br>I set it in /etc/profile.d/filepro.sh and in my rc.local file.<br>I used this syntax . /usr/local/bin/SET_PFCMARK.<br><br>Richard D. Williams<hr>Filepro-list mailing list<br>Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br><a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><br></blockquote><hr>Filepro-list mailing list<br>Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br><a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><br><br></blockquote><br><div class="k9mail-signature">-- <br>Audi omnia, crede nihil.<hr>Filepro-list mailing list<br>Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br><a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>