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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (657)12/11/1997 2:18:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Y2K-Java - Stop the rot - why Y2K must appear in PC magazines

I found yet another sample of non compliant code that is written *today*. This rotting has to stop. the only way is by publishing in the pc/java/c++/... magazines.

This is from the SIM board; excellent source of information! Thanks to David Hall.

John

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14. Author: David C. Hall ( dhall )
Date: Oct. 31 3:51 PM 1997

Interesting acticle in the October 27, 1997
issue of WebWeek. The one entitled Dr. Website:
Sharp Readers Point to Potential Problems with
Last-Modified Code.
The Dr. Website column of Sept 29, 1997 featured
some JAVASCRIPT code for showing the
last-modified date of a document. The code they
created had a Year 2000 problem and a couple of
readers pointed that out.
The code ran like this: document.write("FONT
SIZE=4 FACE=\"ARIAL\">&ltB&gtUpdated
"+mon + " " ", " + "19"+year + " at " +hour +":" +min +
"</FONT>");

Basically ANY code and/or application can be
made non-Yr2K compliant if the programmer does
not break old habits, habits that are ingrained
in our training courses, our programming
books, our experiences, etc. Just becasue you
make your enterprise Yr2K compliant is no
reason to sit back and take a deep breath.
Establish Quality Control procedures and
policies to minimize such bad programming
practices.

Dave Hall
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