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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (11746)	5/26/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: ctirry	Respond to of 13949

An article in Business Insurance suggests that the y2k problem is more complicated than anticipated. Even if a computer recognizes 00 as 2000, doubts exist as to whether computers can correctly determine that 2000 is a leap year. The rule is that the leap year is skipped in the last year of a century except when the year is divisible by 400. The article goes on to state that the first crucial date is 1/1/99 because some systems use 99 in the year field when they do not know what date to assign.The second important date is 9/9/99 since this is the "plug" date for other systems.