From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92471489ebbc99c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: Y2K Issues Date: 1998/11/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 409536055 References: <362B53A3.64E266AB@res.raytheon.com> <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com> <710nnc$jop@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <713nvs$cv8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <71acr3$do4$1@husk.cso.niu.edu> <363E5AAC.E2F0AB7D@flinet.com> <71sbsc$5q5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <720n9r$gk9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3643F872.DD14E00@easystreet.com> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | email: jdijk@acm.org -- Leiden, Holland | member Team-Ada -- Ada & Win32: http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk