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  • Subject: Re: 4 digit date?
  • From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:20:04 -0600

At 08:35 PM 12/20/99 , you wrote:
>When you are on the AS/400, the date is displayed on the left of the 
>screen, in
>certain areas, as XX/XX/XX.  Once the new year is here, does anyone know 
>if that
>date then changes to a 4 digit year?  I was asked and other than changing our
>systems date, and IPLing, I do not know how to find out.  Anyone know?

Well isn't that the crux of the Y2K problem?

No, the year won't automagicly expand to 4 digits... however, the AS/400 
will treat any 2 digit year between 00 and 39 as 2000-2039, anything from 
40-99 will be 1940-1999.

What your applications do, however, is a different story altogether.

david

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