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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (7981)8/13/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: foobert   of 9818
 
And do you know why not?

You said:
<<<<I think that the 9/9/99 date is essentially going to be a non-event. I've read somewhere that certain system architectures might be affected, but can't really imagine how a system - even one with a 2-digit year field - would have a problem on 9/9/99.>>>>

Because the date is stored as 09/09/99. Some old COBOL programs look for HIGH-VALUES in specific fields to indicate end conditions. HIGH-VALUES in a date field would store as 99/99/99.
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