From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 3 14:55:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08714 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 14:55:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08708 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 14:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08729; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:55:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd008673; Thu Dec 3 15:54:39 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA15751; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:54:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199812032254.PAA15751@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Year 2k and PC hardware To: jbryant@unix.tfs.net Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:54:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812030622.AAA22863@unix.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Dec 3, 98 00:22:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > well, i see sept 1st as the point of no return... what is the first > problem date, 9/9/99? This one is urban legend. While the "all nines" stop is a time honored tradition in COBOL, both the day and the month field are two digits, not one digit, and therefore the stop is 99/99/99, which will never happen, not " 9/ 9/99". This is what you get when you get journalists who look into common shortcuts used by programmers, yet don't really have an understanding of the implemetation details of those same shortcuts, or the human practice of not printing leading zeros. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message