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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5439)4/10/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: Jim  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
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.

Insignificant point, but when I was writing Cobol programs in the 1960's, I did not use two digit fields to save computer memory, but to save columns on punched cards.

Also, I converted some of our current systems to ask for MMDDYYYY instead of MMDDYY and the data entry operators are complaining about having to enter 1999 or 2000 each time. I promised that after next January, we would change the data entry back to YY ie. 00,01 etc. for those applications that only have data entry for current + years.

(remember, we use serial date storage so the dates are always stored correctly.)
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