Date Compression and Year 2000 Challenges

By Robert L. Moore and D. Gregory Foley

Dr. Dobb's Journal May 1998

DDDDDD to MMDDYYYY
Use DDToDDD4Y.c (Listing Four; available 
electronically) to convert from DDDDDD to DDDYYYY. 
This is a four digit year and a count of days 
starting at January 1 within that year. Use 
DDDToMMDD.c (Listing Five; available electronically) 
on the DDD part of DDDYYYY to convert DDD to MMDD. 
The combined result is MMDDYYYY.

Example 4: DDDDDD to MMDDYYYY.

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