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>
>>  4.  After surviving Jan 2000, with business running normally, many will go
>>  back to 6.0S dates, and not care anymore.
>
>I disagree with this.  Others feel free to comment, but I cannot envision ANY
>business running "normally" if they haven't prepared for Y2K.  DASD is cheap,
>and us "old timers" (not that I'm that old, I've just been doing this
>professionally for 17+ years and was busy with the old Altair systems prior
>to that) looking to save every byte of both DASD and memory are on the
>decline.  The main problem I see is that the new people that don't know the
>system making decisions about how best to implement it.

Maybe I shouldn't have said after Jan, 2000.  But clearly after you have
all the 19xx dates out your database that are used for date math.  Most
people don't do date math on the 'date of birth' field in their payroll
applications.

Three years from today, A/R clerks will 'deal with' unpaid invoices in
their A/R (e.g.:  change the invoice date from xx/xx/19xx to 01/01/00), as
will others in business.

Al



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