RE: 9/9/99

It has little to do with Y2K.
A programmming convention that means infinity usually.
Guess we are reaching for infinity or whatever.

Beyond MIS, it again will likely be a quiet passing


Regards,

Glenn
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At 03:39 PM 9/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>No. Data on the AS/400 will be represented as 90999, not 9999.
>
>It will be interesting to see. I realized this when I was writing a check
>last night... I wrote 9/1/99 and thought "Hmmm... 9/9/99 is coming up.
>Should be the first big Y2K test."
>
>Then I thought "Oh well, at least the AS/400 should be safe."
>Then I thought "I sure could go for some french fried taters."
>Then I thought "I've been standing here thinking for a while. I best be on
>my way home."
>Bradley V. Stone
>BVS/Tools
>http://www.bvstools.com <http://www.bvstools.com/>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Meecham [mailto:wm@extol.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:53 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?
>
>Bill
>
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