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To: David W. Ricker who wrote (15924)	4/29/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Where I work we've done extensive Y2K testing on all our software, including the Sun boxes running Solaris and Java code. Everything from Sun is Y2K compliant so far. But this sample code from that Java book is a bad example of good coding practices. Mike

To: David W. Ricker who wrote (15924)	4/29/1999 11:07:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Wrong Ricker. That code is Y2K compliant. I just checked the API. Date.getYear() returns the # of years since 1900, so this works just fine the way it is written. I think you might have assumed that Java uses a two digit year in its Date class. Mike