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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8686)	9/16/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

cheeky - Sept. 9 would be 090999, or 990909, depending upon the naming convention been used to indicate a date. While it is true that some computer programmers trigger a loop of computations to stop, such a number would indicate the ninety-ninth day of the ninety-ninth month in the ninety-ninth year. Such a date simply does not exist. Not to quibble, but this is a game of details... "naming convention"? Let's try storage format. "such a date simply does not exist"...so what. There's also no such thing as months 13, 14...18. Which I've heard used when shifting between two accounting systems. "does not exist" is a very dangerous term in software...with imagination & hard work, all sorts of unimaginable things "exist". - David