Re: Y2.1K Compliance

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to add confusion to the issue, AS400 command parameters with type *DATE
have the following help text:

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The parameter value is a character string that
represents a date.  When entering the command, the
year may be specified with either 2 digits or 4
digits.

If a 2-digit year is specified, the date is
assumed to be in the range of January 1, 1940 through December 31, 2039.

If a 4-digit year is specified,
the date may be in the range of August 24, 1928 through May 9, 2071.

When it is passed to the command processing program, it is always passed in
the format Cyymmdd, where C = century, yy = year, mm = month, and dd = day.
The century digit is set to 0 (zero) for years 19xx, and it is set to 1
(one) for years 20xx.

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Note that even though you can specify a 4-digit year, you may not specify a
date past 05/09/2071.

Looks like commands with *DATE type parameters aren't Y2.1K compliant.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gibbs" <david@midrange.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: Y2.1K Compliance


> At 08:09 PM 11/27/2000, you wrote:
> >Perhaps I don't understand CYYMMDD properly, but I would have thought
that the
> >2000's were century 1, 2100's were century 2, etc.  Therefore 2105/05/08
would
> >be 2050508, and would give the right comparison against 2098/11/06, which
> >would
> >be 1981106.  Or is there something I'm missing here?
>
> Ah, good point ... I guess the software would be good until 2999 then.  My
> mistake.
>
> I would guess that they wanted assurances that date windowing wasn't used.
>
> david
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