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To: Steve Woas who wrote (1658)	5/4/1998 10:13:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (3) of 9818

That article raised a very good point about 4 digit dates. I wonder why Quicken gets away with it? Quicken uses 2 digit dates, they state: To enter dates in Quicken for events after December 31, 1999, omit the "20" and enter "00" or the appropriate year number. Quicken assumes numbers from 00 to 27 are for the years 2000 to 2027. They also say: Quicken can display dates in a variety of styles which include the yy/mm/dd and dd/mmm/yy formats. The article says: Therein lies the problem. You see, as users, we don't always get our dates from the operating system. Sometimes, we insert dates ourselves rather that asking the operating system to do it for us. In fact, most of the time, it is not the current date we need at all but some other date in the past or in the future. The peril is in the application software and in the data files as well as in the users who fail to recognize the danger in something so simple as using two digit years. AS I just said, that article raised a good point. I feel All software should use 4 digit dates. Software companies should adopt a standard of 4 digit date, no exception.

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