cookiemonster Messages: 7480 Registered: September 2008 Location: Rainy Manchester
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Then tell the users to enter the correct year!
a four digit year is a full year, 0010 is 0010. Oracle is not going to convert it for you. It'll only convert 2 digit years with the rr format mask.
Why don't you create a WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM trigger and write a check to see if the date entered is older than a certain date and if it is raise an error.