Y2K Customer Nuts ?

 >>It is  entirely possible to  roll back the  dates with encapsulation and
print/ display the  right dates.

First of all as an employee of a Y2K tool vendor I should note that I have
at least a perceived bias here.

While it is possible I still think it's an insane approach.  If you know
enough about where your dates are to encapsulate them, you know enough to
be able to use a tool to fix it properly.  The difference in time taken has
to be relatively trivial.  If the dates on the DB reflect a different value
to reality, then you're going to have fun with end-user queries etc.  While
you may not have end-user access today, you sure will tomorrow!

One of the things that gave me a chuckle was that one of the tools that use
this technique highlights the fact that all of it's code changes can be
easily removed if you ever want to do it right in the future !

I just don't understand why people will work so hard and spend so much
money on stopgap solutions.  And don't get me started on all the folks who
insist on doing it by hand .......


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