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  3. January 2005

RE: Date field's and their file space usage.

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Bob Cozzi wrote:

I think all systems should handle only up to Dec 31, 2099 so that we have a
Y2.1K problem and all of us get work during retirement.  Wait a minute...
I'll be long since dead by then... Let make it through 12/31/2019 before
we're needed again. <vbg> & <tic>

Just wait until 2039 when the the unix timer variable overflows. Plenty of work to do to handle that.

James Rich

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