Re: pdm vs year 2000

telsci wrote:
> 
> The thing that's WRONG with this implementation is that we have spent time
> and money working on a 50 year postponement of the problem.  Are we all
> assuming the AS/400 will be obsolete by then?  Why not spend the above time
> and money on a 3 or 4 digit year and postpone the problem for 900 or 8000
> years?  Ditto for the COBOL ACCEPT DATE.

[snip]

I've written some ILE programs which will convert dates from the 6-digit
or 8-digit numeric to and from our shop standard CYYMMDD dates. Good
until Dec. 31, 2899 (9991231), at least with the 8-digit dates. They
even use a system API to get the system value QDATFMT so they know which
machine they are running on (we have one in Australia, which uses DMY,
as opposed to the USA machine, which is MDY). 90% of the problem was
figuring how to use the %&$#* API, but after that, no sweat.

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