Re: IBM Y2K Readiness

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:23 07/30/98 -0500, David Leland wrote:
>It sounds like they're telling me that they don't intend to change the
>date from a 6 digit date and it's up to me to use the date "window"
>technique to determine the correct year.  Does anyone else besides me
>feel that that's not right?  They could essentially tell me that any IBM
>system database file is Y2K ready as long as it has a 2 digit year.

I agree. If that's what they're really saying, it's kinda cheezy. You can 
manufacture a view that will give you a century byte that will take care of the 
windowing, but I'd expect a little better from commercial software.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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