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

To: Jeff Redman who wrote (5605)	4/28/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: J.L. Turner	Respond to of 9818

" If a programmer used the Julian calendar -- which most folks stopped using when Pope Gregory introduced his innovations about 400 years ago -- there is the possibility that they could inadvertently trigger the end-of-file process." The above quote was by the editor of Ziff-Davis presumably Mitch Radclift. "The julian date is used a lot by programmers, this guy does not have a clue." Mr.Core,you and myself are in agreement on that! "It would have been bad enough had such a question-and-answer article -- such a mishmash of inaccuracies and outright errors -- come from, say, a pastor trying to explain the "Nines Problem" to the readers of his newsletter. Or from the director of a non-profit organization trying to explain it to his staff. Or from a journalist trying to explain it to the readers of a small-town newspaper. It would have been bad enough -- but excusable. After all, computers are complicated. What would you say, though, if you knew that it came, not from a reporter nor from a bureaucrat nor from a clergyman, but from the "editorial director of Ziff-Davis' ZDY2K Web site" Mr. Cores point is an editor that claims to be an expert should not have made the errors that the Ziff-Davis editor made. J.L.T.