Re: Y2K Comments

Subject: Re: Y2K Comments
From: "Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:22:47 -0500

> From: Visnja Beg [mailto:vbeg -at- NEWBRIDGE -dot- COM]

> There is also a problem on older mainframe systems with the
> date September 9, 1999 because the date
> "9/9/99" was programmed as the last possible date.

Yep, it's the old "all nines". Sometimes used to mark a record as "not real
data" or "The End".
But when I used that method, the date I used was "99/99/99" which isn't
coming up. Some programs may have stuffed the numbers through a
date-handling function which might convert it to "9/9/99".

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