From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/11/08
Date: 1998-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F22tqs.3q@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3643F872.DD14E00@easystreet.com
Al Christians (achrist@easystreet.com) wrote:
: dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:
: >
: > Twenty years = 1978, and of course we agree that people
: > were aware of Y2K then, indeed my post that started this
: > thread noted that.
: >
: > But Robert Eachus claimed ten years earlier (late 60's),
: > and that I find dubious.
: >
: I've been doing a little informal research on my bookshelf to see
: what level of awareness of y2k problems was in times past and what
: a reasonably literate software developer would have seen. Here's
: some of what I've found:
: 1. A good late 1980's Cobol text has examples with 2-digit year fields.
Most financial software that I am aware of was at that time not
written in COBOL but PL/1. One reason this is stil done is to take
advantage of it's 22 digits accuracy.
Jerry.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-19 0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
[not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-10-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-26 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues (well, not really...) Dave Wood
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dennison
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1998-10-27 0:00 ` John Herro
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-29 0:00 ` system
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-11-08 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-02 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
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1998-10-23 0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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