Re: Y2K countdown

I really didn't want to have this discussion.
Should have kept my mouth shut.
Only that I could see the *possibility* of 99.099 and
99/9/9 being problematic. It is amazing how much
more heat than light this thread has generated, so I
sign off.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Lovelady <dennis@lovelady.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Y2K countdown


> Leif:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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....
> --
> Dennis Lovelady                    Simpsonville, SC
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> of it."
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