Re: Tape Expiration

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

Yahooooooo!

Let's see...  I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that internally, the tape
stores the expiration date as a 5 char, YYDDD format where YY is the year and 
DDD
is the ordinal day of the year.  And the winner for *PERM?  You bet.  99999.

Now, any system that thinks the ordinal day of 999 means *PERM should be okay.
Any system foolhardy enough to review only the year could have problems next
year.

b.

Ed Tate wrote:

> All those tapes that I've saved with permanent expiration over
> the last umpteen years....will they be good after 2000 or will they
> expire?
>
> Ed Tate (etate01@sun.hazelwood.k12.mo.us)
> Coordinator of Technology Services
> Hazelwood School District
> 15955 New Halls Ferry Road
> Florissant, MO  63031
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