10. The year 2000

10.1 Is A.D. 2000 a leap year?

Yes.

10.2 Does Clipper take into account the end of the millenium?

Yes, in several ways:

• Dates are stored in DBF files in YYYYMMDD format, so Clipper has a way to distinguish, for example, 1901 from 2001 in your data.
• You can cause your date-valued GETs to display with all four year digits with the SET CENTURY ON command.
• You can control the interpretation of two-digit date entries with the SET EPOCH command.