Prj2002: Project more that 20yrs old?

[Mike]

Just for fun, I wanted to do a personal timeline using Project. When I went
to enter my birthday as the first milestone, I was told:

Invalid date.

This is not a valid date, or it is outside the range for dates, which is
janyary 1, 1984 through december 31 2049.
Type the date in the correct format: for example 6/15/00 or June 15, 2000.

Is it possible to change how far back in time a project can start? I poked
around in the help and tools/options and couldn't find the answer.

many thanks

 

[Rob Schneider]

ASAIK, no, it is not possible to change these dates. Best you can do is
do you "project" scheduling in the near past/future and then just do
mental arithmetic to translate to the far past/future.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Steve House]

Just FYI - Project records time as an integer value counting the number of
1/10 minute "ticks" beginning with 00:00.00 01 Jan 1984. 23:59.9 December
31, 2049 is when the number of ticks equals 2^32-1 and the register is full
of 1's and on the next tick rolls over to zero again.

 

[Mike]

Just FYI - Project records time as an integer value counting the number of
1/10 minute "ticks" beginning with 00:00.00 01 Jan 1984. 23:59.9 December
31, 2049 is when the number of ticks equals 2^32-1 and the register is full
of 1's and on the next tick rolls over to zero again.
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Is this the case with all versions of ms project. I have a few upgrades,
wondering if an older version could perhaps start a project earlier than 84.
thx!

 

[Steve House]

As far as I know, 84 was the earliest for any version.

 

[Mike]

As far as I know, 84 was the earliest for any version.

Thx for the info Steve. I take it that there is no way to adjust to start
earlier than 84 and loose time of the end (2049)?

 

[Steve House]

Nope

 

[davegb]

I did a similar timeline, but I used Excel, partly because of the
reason you encountered.