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Technology Stocks : 2000 Date-Change Problem: Scam, Hype, Hoax, Fraud

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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (281)	10/8/1997 11:49:00 AM
From: David Eddy	of 1361

Jeff, FYI, dBase, from day one, always had a "date" data type that stored dates as characters with 4 digit years. If you add "Set Century On" to your code you are instantly Y2K data entry/displaycompliant. I've used two of the multitude of xBase clones & was well pleased with how easy they were to use... & how easy it would be to take shortcuts because you didn't know any better and you were in a hurry and because this was just a quick 'n' dirty temporary sort of thing. The way I look at it, a computer language is a computer language is a computer language & it makes no difference whatsoever what platform it runs on. When the bean counters sit down & do the math... "let's see: 2,000,000 records that are just 10 bytes shorter--only 5 dates--and you save 20MB" Anyone old enough here to remember when a 20MB disk on a PC cost real money? I had to pay US$800 in 1987 to upgrade from 10MB to 20MB on my 19lb Toshiba luggable. Somehow I was unable to factor in that bys 1997 a 1.2GB disk is under US$300 retail, quantity one. I think I speak for many when I say I'd sooner pull out dandelions in my yard than remediate old dBase code. Whimp! <g> David

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