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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (1014)	12/14/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 1361

Bill, in that article it said the years were not important for those specific functions, only days were. So it's obvious that it would only work in certain situations. Article courier.evansville.net My post: I said certain cases. Message 6805657 This is NOT the first time I have heard talk about date roll backs.

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (1014)	12/14/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Respond to of 1361

Bill, my post referenced controls for manufacturing systems only. Of course banking and accounting systems reference and make calculations concerning the year. However, many manufacturing control systems do not care about the year. Systems that reference time intervals generally do not reference the year. Also, systems that require knowledge of the day of the week generally do not reference the year. Most manufacturing and process control Input/Output has no date information (pressure, temperature, flow rate, or physical or chemical properties). The point is that many of the smaller manufacturing plants that do not have complex networked systems or custom coded applications can make the century transition with relatively small costs. This must still be demonstrated on a case by case basis and the usual inventory, audit, implementation, testing and documentation requirements do not go away. Al