Re: Date manipulation

From: Ian Dalziel (iandalziel_at_lineone.net)
Date: 12/26/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:26:48 +0000

On 24 Dec 2003 08:26:24 -0500, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:

>... and it turned out that the President of the bought-out hospital was
>the beneficiary of some rather... creative accounting; it seems that he'd
>had a pre-tax deduction applied to his payroll profile, one which would,
>every week, automatically take out one hundred pre-tax dollars...
>
>... and then somehow - *must* have been an accident because *everyone*
>denied knowing *anything* about this - the VSAM file containing the
>employee profiles got changed... and the sign-nibble on the COMP-3 field
>for this deduction went from negative to positive, giving the man a
>'negative deduction'...
>

That doesn't work, does it? A tax-free deduction is before the tax
calculation, a tax-free addition is after the tax calculation -
there's more than a sign involved.
>... so every time his paycheck was calculated the programs would subtract
>negative one hundred pre-tax dollars, in effect giving him an additional
>one hundred tax-free dollars.

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