RE: 9/9/99 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Do you really mean 09/09/99?  I have never seen any place use 09/09/99 as a
special value.  On the other hand, I have seen lots of 99/99/99 and 00/00/00
used for special purposes...  Some Y2K folks have been warning about this,
but I suspect it to be an urban legend.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
mailto:Buck.Calabro@aptissoftware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Meecham 
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 3:53 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      9/9/99
> 
> A few places that I worked at used 9/9/99 to mean the end of time.  Was
> this a very common practice or was I just lucky enough to work at a
> disproportionate sample?  If it is common, the end of time is this month,
> is anyone on this list worried about it?
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