This patch will automatically convert the above-named files to the new format when it is run for the first time. This conversion results in the version number of your Church Database installation being updated to Version 3. All dates entered from this point forward will require four-digit year entry. You may continue to leave the area code field blank if you choose. Explanation Not all dates were converted to four-digit years.
Some dates have a built-in context, from which the correct century is obvious.
The same is true of contribution records. To minimize risk, no change was made for these dates. The dates that were converted have no immediate context to determine the century, or were involved in calculations that require knowing the century. Fitting the additional two characters for dates and four characters for telephone numbers into already-crowded reports was not a simple task. A variety of approaches was taken with reports.