Re: Y2K countdown

["Dennis Lovelady" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leif:

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From: leif@ibm.net <leif@ibm.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Y2K countdown


>> 99/9/9 is still 990909 unless you are interperting a 6 alpha field and
>> putting your own slashes in....
>
>That is exactly the point: 990909 is used as the 'never expire date'.
>The 99099 I was referring to was Julian day 99 in year 99, and
>99099 is used as the never expire date in systems that use Julian
>days to stores date info.

I'm surprised that as an IBM'er you don't know that the never-expire julian
date is 99/999, not 99/099.  Ah well....
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