RE: UDATE moving to 8 digits???

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, May 06, 1998 4:41 PM, Don [SMTP:dr2@access.digex.net] wrote:
> > One of the folks here was told by a software vendor that IBM had plans
> > to
> > change UDATE from 6,0 to 8,0.  Has anybody else heard of this?  In my
> > infinite wisdom (snort) I dismissed this as preposterous, but I 
thought
> >
> > I'd check on the off chance...
> >
>
> Uh, you can use the *DATE to get all 8 digits now...why would they do
> this?
>
> Who was the vendor?
>

First, thanks to all for confirming what shred of sanity I think I still 
have <grin>!  Secondly, our Y2K group heard this from Seagull; not their 
technical folks, but their sales folks.

Thanks to all!

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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