Date less than 1950
In T24 by default the Date type field will not allow entering a date which is older than the year 1950. In case if you enter a date 19490203 in a Date type field the system will throw error "YEAR CANNOT PRECEDE 1950" To overcome this the field 2 of the T array of the field in subject should be set to 1000. An example is given below. fieldName = 'XX<FIELD1' fieldLength = '35.1' fieldType = 'D' fieldType<2> = 1000 CALL Table.addFieldDefinition(fieldName, fieldLength, fieldType, neighbour) After defining the date field in this fashion the system will allow dates of years from 1000 to 2049