RE: Y2K39 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Sadly, I fear that someone will still be writing fixed-format RPG code with input primary....

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer – ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
OCEAN User Group<http://www.ocean400.org>

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:30:48 -0400
Subject: Re: Y2K39
From: dan27649@xxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I'll hazard a guess that the state of information technology 8000 years
from now will relegate today's applications to the dustbin of history.

But, then again, this is the Power i we're talking about.

- Dan

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

If you think Y2K39 is a problem just consider what a mess we will have
when we get to year 10000 (9999 plus 1).

Jerry

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