Re: Y2K Customer nuts?

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:44 PM 12/2/98 , Art Tostaine, Jr. wrote:
>They want to know if they can just set the date back on their /400.  The
>controller knows of people who are going to do this.  They want me to test
>this on another 400.
>I can do this, just wondering if anyone has any serious reason why you can't
>do this?

Using the 28 year rule is a very ugly solution, but it does work.

Some Y2K remediation tools can help with these changes.  INTO 2000 is one I
happen to know of that handles the 28 year rule.

david

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