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In article <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> dgh@unify.UUCP (David Harrington) writes:
}
}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.
}
}I always thought that you could really make a bundle, starting in about 1990,
}with a company that did nothing but fixed all date routines, so the world
}wouldn't end on Jan 1, 2000.
}
}Unfortunately, I think date routines got smarter over the years :-(  :-).
}

Well at least on Jan 1, 1980 that wasn't so, at least those of us who worked
for DEC had to wait a couple of weeks to get the correct paychecks because
the TOPS-10 system used for payroll had 197X hard coded into it.
 
I took the trouble to follow this up with the VAX/VMS source code and yes 19XX
was all over the place as of 1981!

The world ends due to computer malfunction Dec 31, 1999!
 
           *Mike Waters    AA4MW/7  wat...@dover.sps.mot.com *
We can defeat gravity.  The problem is the paperwork involved.