Re: Y2K and six digit date display

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:28 PM 12/15/98 , Rick Renkema wrote:
>Is my program non-compliant (or not Year 2000 ready) when I display a date 
>on screen as DD/MM/YY now or after the year 2000 has arrived?

The way a date is displayed has nothing to do with Y2K compliance... it's
the way it's stored, sorted, and manipulated.  If you store the date with a
4 digit year, but only display the two most significant digits, that's fine.

Even if the dates are purely informational, if they are stored in a file, I
would suggest you make them Y2K compliant... you never know when someone is
going to say "Hey, remember those dates I said we just needed to know, but
didn't need to report on... well, I need a report on them".

david

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