From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 9 06:06:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18256 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 06:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18251 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 06:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA20728; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 15:06:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Peter Dufault Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2k and PC hardware References: <199812050943.EAA17915@hda.hda.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Dec 1998 15:06:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Dufault's message of "Sat, 5 Dec 1998 04:43:02 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Dufault 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