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Article #118Re: Debacle after 1999 (was FORTRAN Greetings)
From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 20:44
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 20:44
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|> This reminds me: remember in the 60's and 70's when we realized that, yes, |> Virginia, the 20th century WILL give way to the 21st, and EVERY DATE ROUTINE |> EVER WRITTEN WILL FAIL? |> All those hard-coded '19' followed by a PIC 99 or XX field. | |Well, some will say "1900" (hard 19 caten 99 wrap to 00, lost oflo), |some will say "1000" (hard 1 caten 999 wrap to 000, lost oflo), |some will even say "1'00" (note that ' is immediately after 9 in ASCII :-) Actually it is :. This really happens. In one X windowing system program (forget which one), numbers > 999 would display as :NN. Apparently the programmer didn't think windows would exceed 1000 pixels wide. Think it has been fixed since.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!udel!rochester!ken From: k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Debacle after 1999 (was FORTRAN Greetings) Message-ID: <1989Dec14.204421.11808@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 14 Dec 89 20:44:21 GMT References: <1923@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> <5784@umd5.umd.edu> Reply-To: k...@cs.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 13 Posted: Thu Dec 14 21:44:21 1989 Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit