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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1571)	5/4/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) of 9818

Sire - ....products do not use a "date" field for any functions and therefore will have no problems with Year 2000 Compliance I've not been following what specific products you're discussing here, but here's a snip of thought... "date" per se is not the only issue here. The problem is how silicon/software things count time. Date is just one facet of time. The very real possibility exists that when a chip flips over the 12/31/99 to 1/1/00 time line, numbers could go unexpectedly negative or something that is not handled in the logic. At that point, "results will be difficult to predict." You then have to be sensitive to where this particular "device" is situated... a standalone cash register is clearly not as dangerous as a pressure control valve in a continuous process plant... and both of these devices could be using the same embedded chip. Very complex. Impossible to accurately diagnose the level of risk from a distance. - David

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