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To: Paul van Wijk who wrote (4208)2/9/1998 4:27:00 PM
From: Pete Mason  Read Replies (1) of 4571
 
>> Just curious, do you really believe the Y2k-market is out of business in feb. 2000? <<

I would expect the vast majority to be out of business, simply because I can't think of many applications that it makes a difference to whether it's the year 1901 or 2001.

For example, look at monthly billing systems. They will crater when trying to subtract Dec 2 1999 from Jan 2 2000 to see how much time has elapsed between billings. But the very next month, when they subtract Jan 2 2000 from Feb 2 2000, they'll get the right answer again. That's because all these two-byte systems NEVER knew which century they were in; they will only have problems when making calculations ACROSS centuries, and that will for many of them be a one-time event. So any which have worked for the twentieth century will work again in the 21st, provided they no longer have to calculate across that evil century boundary.

Still skeptical (and still glad I've covered my DDIM shorts for the time being),

-- Pete
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