Re: Y3K or not to Y3K

[ghockemeyer@xxxxxxxx (Gene Hockemeyer)]

yes .. but only within the restrictions .. set by IBM .. to be universal ..
you should stay with the 8digit .. seems like a petty issue .. educatiors ..
seldom want to catch up to current thinking..


-----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 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Y3K or not to Y3K


>Those features all work with 6 digit dates if they'll work with 8-digit
>dates, so far as I know.
>_______________________
>Booth Martin
>boothm@earth.goddard.edu
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>ghockemeyer@uspa.com (Gene Hockemeyer)
>Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
>02/06/2000 04:49 PM
>Please respond to RPG400-L
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>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 ..
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>
>-----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
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>>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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