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HP-41CX Date Format Message #1 Posted by SteveH on 28 Mar 2006, 12:38 a.m. I was playing around at setting up the date and time on my HP41-CX which is one of my 'backup' HPs so I am not too familiar with its functions. I setup the time format to 24 hour, with the date displayed in MDY format. However when I tried to set the date I generated a data error. I realise that say 28.03199 is 28th March 1999 and initially assumed that 28.03006 would be the format for today but this was always rejected. What was accepted was 28.03206 - is this correct?

Re: HP-41CX Date Format Message #2 Posted by Massimo Gnerucci (Italy) on 28 Mar 2006, 12:50 a.m., in response to message #1 by SteveH Quote: I realise that say 28.03199 is 28th March 1999 and initially assumed that 28.03006 would be the format for today but this was always rejected. What was accepted was 28.03206 - is this correct? Not really. Assuming you were inputting data in MDY format and not DMY as you did: 28.03199 is 28th March 1990. 28.03006 is 28th March 60 AD(!) Rejected since it is not a gregorian date. 28.03206 is 28th March 2060. Try with 3.282006 (MDY) or 28.032006 (DMY). Greetings, Massimo Edited: 28 Mar 2006, 3:04 a.m.

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