Your right, most banks, brokerage firms, retail, etc., should get the problem solved. As far as the government is concerned, they will manage to screw this up like they do with just about everything else.
But why panic over this?, if the government were to shut down I would think that would be a good thing!
All in all, for most business software, the change is not rocket science, if needed a company will stop all new development and get all of it's programmers to test and fix dates. Usually about 10% of the programs have dates in them, at least 1/2 should already be using a 4 digit year. Of the other programs, most would not care if it is 1900 or 2000, like General Ledger, we don't look that far back for financial history. Many of the other dates are used in report headings in the format mm/dd/yy, and it will make no difference if these dates routines are converted or not. |
