This Natural profile parameter can be used to adjust the current machine date (as read by using the internal machine time) by adding/subtracting a number of years to/from it. This may be useful for countries that use different calendars.
Possible settings | -499 to 499 |
The parameter is specified as
where |
---|---|---|
Default setting | 0 |
|
Dynamic specification | yes | |
Specification within session | no |
Notes:
YD
setting is not, the 1st March will be used instead of
the 29th February.
TD
,
DD
and
YD
must be in the range of 1582 through 2699. If the
profile parameter MAXYEAR
is set to
9999
, the upper year limit is 7999