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To: learnstocks who wrote (3653)	9/11/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Nothing that anyone's noticed so far. And if anything did happen, it's probably in a system that's still being run only because everybody associated with it moved on long ago and nobody knows how to give it its untimely death. Actually, the more common stop code was on the 5 digit date system (yyddd where yy is the year and ddd is the day since the start of the year). A stop code of 99999 wouldn't have been a valid year as the ddd portion can't go above 366. As I've frequently stated, most Y2K failures have already occurred or been prevented. Relatively few programs will compare dates from different millennia for the first time on Jan 1,2000. Hopefully, the nicest thing that will happen on Jan 1, 2000 is the end of all the ridiculous hype. Ian.