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ALADProd:

--- Quote ---It should detect any date format settings and adjust accordingly.

True, but we haven't established that is the cause of the problem. The fact your changing the setting had no effect may suggest otherwise. :-\
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First, my error.   When I changed my setting to a 4 digit year, I obviously failed to press "Apply" or "OK" because I did the test again now and ages calculate correctly (Even though the program still displayed it as a 2 digit year).    I guess this would show that it is a bug when it get's confused by a 2 vs 4 digit year?


--- Quote ---Or some kind of incompatibility with your system. BTW, what is your OS? As I said before, it should behave like a tooltip—appearing only when the mouse pointer is hovering over the link.
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I'm using Windows XP SP3.  I have the program also installed on a Vista computer with the same results.  My program is version 0.9.9.14.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---I guess this would show that it is a bug when it get's confused by a 2 vs 4 digit year?
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Yes it's a bug. I can turn Ernest Borgnine into a 7-year-old by changing my date format to 2 digits.

nostra:
It is not really a bug as PVD has no way to know if the 2 digits should be interpreted as 19xx or 20xx. Windows defaults to 1940 - 2039.

Anson:

--- Quote from: nostra on February 06, 2010, 03:30:09 am ---It is not really a bug as PVD has no way to know if the 2 digits should be interpreted as 19xx or 20xx.
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true, although in the special case of someone born in 17, it can't be 2017 (yet!), and/or the given age of 7 should be -7 (minus seven).

Such an additional check for negative ages might temporarily help a bit but probably won't be worth the effort to implement, since sooner or later there will be many more movies and actors with dates that are more than 100 years ago. Maybe it could be useful to have a hint somewhere (in a manual or some installation instructions) which reminds people to be aware of this problem.

btw: just a month ago (on the change from 2009 to 2010), tens of millions of bank cards stopped working in germany since their builtin chips had a software error which didn't handle the transition from 9 to 0 ... although those cards were not free like PVD and although (after all that talk about the millennium bug 10 years ago), that transition problem could have been avoided easily.

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