Re: Y2K Customer nuts?

Folks:

An interesting idea from AS/400 magazine November 1998 (pp. 72-73).

The author Brendan O'Connell of Millennium Solutions suggests Encapsulation.  
Here is the explanation.  "Encapsulation involves subtracting a fixed number of 
years from all databases data fields, and where these fields are output to 
either screens or reports, the date offset value is reapplied.  The normal 
offset value is 28 years this preserves day-of-the-week mapping required for 
financial and planning
applications.  The general effect of this method is to remove the sequence and 
calculation errors associated with the century change; that is 98,99,00,01 
become 70,71,72,73."

Ok, now I am not doing this.  If you do this, you are on your own.  I still 
prefer 4 digit year as CCYYMMDD as 19981231 :-).

> Art Tostaine, Jr. wrote:
>
> > I know things like reports will show wrong dates, etc.  But they don't seem 
>to bother the customer.  I think they are crazy.  What do you think?
>

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Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net


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