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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (590)12/5/1997 12:24:00 PM
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Cash Register and Y2K

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45. Author: Bruce Hevner ( aceracer )
Date: Nov. 18 7:58 AM 1997

Here_are_some_FACTS_to_look_at.
I have a Royal#ER246 Cash Register purchased
new in 1988 for a small business I had at the time.
It has 4 separate departments that it keeps
totals for. It has a time and date stamp on the
reciept and when taking department totals.
Just for fun I dug that thing out and ran the
following test. I set the date at 11:58
12-31-99. The date rolled (on or off) to show 00
as the year. I then tried to set the date to Feb 28
to check for leap year. No good. It would not let
me make ANY settings using 00 as the year digits.
So if you were using this thing it would appear to
be working OK for awhile in 2000. BUT if for any
reason you wanted to change anything DURING
2000 you would not be able to do so. If for
instance you lost power (it has battery backup
but only for a certain time) and you lost the date
during 2000 you would not be able to reset it. It
would take a date with 01 as the year. Now how many
small business owners out there have
registers/POS systems that act like this,or
worse? Ask your local merchants about it and
I'll bet you find VERY few who have checked this,
or even know what the heck you are talking about!
I have been checking my sales reciepts from
stores and have not found one that uses 4 digit
year. Of course they could be compliant and just
displaying a 2 digit year but are they? How many
stores do you know of that could stay open making
change and keeping track of sales by hand untill
their POS can be fixed?
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