RE: Y2K Lawsuit

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

There are multiple  methodologies [ standards] here and 
 in this case both are correct. It  depends on  what you  reference.

Happy  New Year 99

Glenn
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At 09:22 AM 12/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>In 1989 I started on the AS/400, developing a new system for a major 
>company.  At that time the project manager contacted IBM to find out how 
>they planned on handling the Y2K coding.  They told us that the standard 
>was to be a single digit century code. (0 for 19xx - twentieth century, 1 
>for 20xx - twenty-first century).  Several years later they changed their 
>minds and went with the four digit year.  In some cases you tried to use 
>standards and were crossed up by IBM.
>
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>From:  boothm@ibm.net[SMTP:boothm@ibm.net]
>Reply To:      MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Sent:  Wednesday, December 23, 1998 11:16 PM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: Y2K Lawsuit
>
>1993?  How much was dasd back then?  I clearly remember discussions on the 
>cost of dasd to store the "19" and nearly everyone agreeing that when it 
>came to adding in a gazzillion 19s the choice was "save the money".
>
>
>In <Pine.SV4.3.96.981223203545.20383A-100000@saltmine.radix.net>, on 
>12/23/98
>   at 08:38 PM, Don <dr2@cssas400.com> said:
>
>>> HOPEFULLY any judge will see that these people made the DUMB decision to 
>buy a
>>> release and never move forward...
>
>>That will depend...especially on how it was presented to the prospective
>>client...
>
>>AND, we actually have seen source code with comments from the original
>>vendor along with code documenting where date routines are to be not
>>executed because they knew in 1993 that their code wasn't going to work
>>after 1999...THAT is defecive code...and should get a vendor zapped!
>
>
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>boothm@ibm.net
>Booth Martin
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