RE: 9/9/99

At 08:05 AM 9/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Buck, I would tend to agree. Unfortunately some of our department
>representatives bought into this urban legend and insisted we test this date
>as part of our functional area tests. Nothing ever failed, obviously, for
>the reasons you stated. I hope the paranoid ones out there don't work
>themselves into too much of a frenzy over this date.
>Terry Richardson
>Sr. P/A
>The Orvis Company, Inc.
>802-362-8663
>
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During an IV & V Audit we did for a worldwide Corporation,
earlier this year several iterations of 999999 were found
both in the source code and data in files.

Now the code was from a major application provider and
made Y2K ready/compliant via a windowing technique by
the application provider. The client had run tests and
forward dated into 2000 also.

For what it is worth - this is more a quality assurance[Q A]
issue then Y2K. They just happen very near the same time.

Unless you check for the existence and how the Y2K changes
affect the presences and uses of 999999 - anything immediate
or latent can happen.
To quote a Y2K Project manager - "Know thy Data"

AFTER that big speel- I am sure, publicly, it will be another non event


Regards,

Glenn
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