Date: 09 Dec 1998 15:06:07 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2k and PC hardware Message-ID: <xzpr9u98l68.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Peter Dufault's message of "Sat, 5 Dec 1998 04:43:02 -0500 (EST)" References: <199812050943.EAA17915@hda.hda.com>
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Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> writes: > > 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". > Are you sure? I also heard the "9999 flag" thing on the radio last > year, but the date mentioned was in April. I guess that would > make it the ninety-ninth day of 1999. There are OSes (e.g. OS/360) which store the date as the year and the number of days since new year (in "The Mythical Man-Month", Brooks gripes about wasting 26 bytes on code that handled 12/31 properly in leap years, rather than leaving it to the operator) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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