The 9/9/99 sham

[Jerry Feldman]

The news the last couple of days has been talking about the 9/9/99 problem. 
If anyone knew what they were talking about, they would know that it is 
bogus. In COBOL it was common to code the last record in a file as all 
(EBCDIC) 9s. Since dates would have been stored as 6 digits, the dates your 
be 99/99/99 or as a julian 99999. September 9 is 09/09. While there are 
real year 2000 problems throughout the industry, the 9/9/99 is a 
non-problem.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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