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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (247)	8/14/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: Jim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 662

Re: 9 Sep 99. I am surprised that people are concerned about computer problems occurring on Sep 9. I have written thousands of programs over the past 30 years and have never conditioned a program to end based on a date. The normal way is to look for an EOF (End of File character) ie. hex FFFF. If I wanted to condition a program to end on a "dummy date" ie. 999999, it would not see this condition on Sep 9, as this date id 090999 and pointed out by Daffodil. You would also need to be processing that transactions in date sequence, and have pre-stored a dummy transaction with a date 999999 for the program to see. I think there was more potential for programs to be looking for a year 99 record that would have caused a problem on 010199, and I did not hear of any such problems. I expect that there will not be any reported problems on Sep 9, but some will accuse companies and IT departments of covering up all the "problems". We passed the Jan 1, Apr 1, and Jul 1 Y2K "key" dates with no problems, and I expect the same will be true for the Sep 9 date.