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To: maouse who wrote ()	9/9/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: finknottle	Read Replies (1) of 4

This scare is total rubbish. I've been programming for over 20 years and I have NEVER used a zero in any high-values field, nor have I ever heard of even anecdotal evidence to support this scare. A date high-value was always set to binary all 1's, or decimal all 9's, i.e. 99/99/99, where the date validation routines permitted this. In the cases where a valid date was needed, one would use 12/31/99. This scare was totally bogus, much like the scare around Y2K. I have seen a book entitled something like "How to save your money when the Y2K crash happens". I have a suggestion: don't buy this book for a start - that'll put you $20 ahead. And it should be "if", not "when". If you want to buy cheap canned foods and a cheap generator, wait until Feb 2000 - the market will be flooded. The worst case scenario is that your bank's ATMs will go off-line for a couple of hours. The banks will be on-line very fast - do you think they want to lose the chance of scoring the ATM charges? They never lose a chance to take your money anyway, so why should this be any different.

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