RE: L-date fields

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:49 PM 9/15/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Glenn, I believe your points are exactly the reason we programmers will
>get into trouble if we try to use intuition and logic to suggest YYYY
>dates to users.  The screw-ups, special training, and over-ride commands
>will eat us alive.  We are fast approaching the start of the Y2K Death
>March; we'll do better to get Y2K compliant and then go back and remediate
>the production problems that users complain about.  Afterwards.
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>Booth Martin       Contract Programming, Inc.
>---------------------------------------------------
OH, I  agree the simple solution is likely the best to meet the date
requirements.  My point was  for those that did not want to handle the
screen  reformatting for  4 digits  or did not have any room for it without
major redesign work.  Again it is an option - good or bad.

I fact I  would  take it deeper then that and attack it from a business
model perspective for survival.

The answers are not that  simple  nor  are they usually  capable of being
solved with home grown solutions.  The  time wasted on solution development
Vs a  fast start  with a Y2K specific  tool set is  quite  large.  And
there are those that will  use  packages such as Pathfinder to remediate
Y2K and fine they are making an extensive number of passes&  burning CPU
cycle galore to reach the goal.  

On the Y2K  Death March:

Fact  1 70% of the AS/400s have not  started yet
Fact  2 65% of all MIS dollars will go directly to Y2K
Fact 3  MIS is just the start of the Y2K infrastructure issues.

Are  they beginning to listen and Act  up in Vermont yet or  tracking  with
the global trend?



Glenn
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