Re: Y3K or not to Y3K

[ghockemeyer@xxxxxxxx (Gene Hockemeyer)]

would appear ... even though you are staying in the dark ages of M36 .. that
you might want to take advantage of all of the things that are given by
modern language considerations.. such as date validations.. calculation of
due dates or time intervals etc ... doesn't cost you anything to utilize all
of the advantages of AS400

Try them .. you might like them ..


-----Original Message-----
From: boothm@earth.Goddard.edu <boothm@earth.Goddard.edu>
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Date: Sunday, February 06, 2000 1:39 PM
Subject: Y3K or not to Y3K


>An interesting question was just asked here.  Why, on a brand new
>application with no dates prior to Jan. 1, 2000 are we using an 8-digit
>date?  L-Date fields are not relevant  -  this is an *M36 installation and
>likely to remain so.
>_______________________
>Booth Martin
>boothm@earth.goddard.edu
>http://www.spy.net/~booth
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