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Why does date_and_time(DATE) return 20 for the century?

April 26, 2017century Return

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Why does date_and_time(DATE) return 20 for the century?

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Century is just defined to be a group of 100 years. For 2007, date_and_time(DATE) sets the century and year values in DATE to 20 & 7, respectively. So, for example, 2007 = 20*100 + 7 Here is a fortran program that uses date_and_time().