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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5439)4/10/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: David Eddy  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Ron -

You must be a programmer, David. Since truncating date inputs in order to save memory space seems suspiciously similar to making Y2K the acronym for the Year 2000 programming fault.

I haven't written code in 10+ years.

And before I was a programmer I was abbreviating things... just like everyone else who doesn't want to write out Chernyshevsky or Dobrolyubov every time.

Btw, did you ever follow the work that Bob Bemer

Thanks for the softball... remind me to send you a referal fee. <g>

I was more than involved in Bob Bemer's effort. He saw the Wall Street Journal story about me (8/25/95), was shocked to learn that the short date problem hadn't been solved & came out of retirement.

To the best of my knowledge, his solution hasn't taken off either.

- David
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