The date that DISCO attributes to each document is derived from the information in the load file or the metadata found in the document's original file. Unfortunately, sometimes this information is incorrect or invalid, resulting in the document being displayed or sorted in the wrong order in DISCO.
An invalid date is:
- Any date before 1/1/1980, since this date is often the result of a Y2K bug that stamped documents incorrectly
- Any date that matches the date the load file was processed
- Any date that is in the future
- An incomplete date, such as MM/YYYY (the correct format is MM/DD/YYYY)
- A blank date
Within DISCO, all invalid fields will display as 12/31/9999. This date is simply a placeholder to indicate that this date is invalid. DISCO will leave these values blank in the DAT file during production by default. The following is an example of a production DAT file. The blank values below would all display 12/31/9999 values in the database.
If you wanted the 12/31/9999 in the production DAT file, then there is an option to include them during the production.