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9/9/99
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08/09/1999 14:17:21
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Re: 9/9/99
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00262436
Message ID:
00262511
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Greetings John!

FoxPro is immune; but really, the 9/9/99 scenario is a non-issue. Old legacy programs never really used four nines as a date since months and days are always two digits long. September 9, 1999 would be stored as "090999" and not "9999".

The greater danger has already passed. It occurred on April 9, 1999. Since many programmers use julian dates or some similar mechanism, the 99th day of the year 1999 could really have been stored as "9999." But the day passed without a murmur.

Of course, unless a Y2K-glitch is so severe that it makes the news, most companies won't even admit they're having a problem. Better to slide the dirt under the rug, fix the error as quickly as possible, and don't alarm the media, the employees and most importantly, the shareholders.

Cheers, Harry

P.S. I'm really looking forward to February 29, 2000 -- NOT January 1, 2000. Any system which can't differentiate between 1900 and 2000 is going to have a real headache on this day because 1900 wasn't a leap year.
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