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13/02/1999 18:44:20
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Visual FoxPro
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Title:
Re: Y2K
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00187426
Message ID:
00187459
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>>>What are the Y2K issues that apply to VFP 5.0?
>>>
>>>I do not want to upgrade to 6.0 & VFP 5.0 appears to be NON-Compliant.
>>>
>>>Any testing that I have done (with Set Century ON) does not reveal a
>>>problem??
>>>
>>>Any comments...
>>
>>Microsoft lists VFP 5.00 as Y2K compliant. See Microsoft Y2k Product Guide Of course with any programming language poor programming can make the resulting product non-compliant. The MS webpage lists the things to watch our for.
>
>VFP 5.0 does have some Y2K problems. LUPDATE() uses a 2 digit year. This has been fixed in VFP 6.0. Also, if you build dates from strings using CTOD, you may have problems. VFP 6.0 can help you identify these areas.

As the difference in replies points out, as well as the fact that your corp. has a list of what's compliant which disagrees with M$' list, the problem with this sort of question is the related question: "what did you mean by compliant?"

There are many issues which are on the list of problems caused by Y2K. Some of them are trivial things no one may care about except to get a product they don't like on a list of non-compliant programs. Some of them could potentially bring a mission-critical app to a grinding halt and stop a large business from operating (or at least make it difficult).

You have to learn more about what the specific issues are, and find which ones your clients do and don't care about (some are appearance-only), and decide for yourself whether a product (or an old app you're renovating) is, or can be made, Y2K-compliant to the satisfaction of the users.

HTH,
Rich.
Rich Addison, Micro Vane, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI
Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew.
- Charlie Papazian, The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing
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