Matt,
>From a programmer's (and EDI specialist's) point-of-view, I would like to
argue that CCYY represents the century and the year properly, in which CC=20
and YY=01 resulting in 2001.
I think that the programmers at your previous company were "fixing" the Y2K
problem in a very unusual way.
Dave Taylor
Sysmark Information Systems, Inc.
800-797-6275
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From: "Matt Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: EDI dates
> I was hoping that Mr. Kammerer would step up to the plate on this. I
vaguely recall (this might have just been a dream, though) an off-line
exchange some time ago about the "CCYYMMDD" nomenclature.
>
> From what I understand, "CC" for century is interpreted differently by
programmers than by those of us in the EDI world. At my old company, I seem
to remember (hey, my memory wasn't too good *before* I had to clear room to
store all of this X12 stuff!) that the programmers solved the Y2K "problem"
by using "0100" (CCYY) or maybe it was "100" (CYY) to indicate the year
2000.
>
> The way that "CCYY" is interpreted in the EDI world is better stated as
"YYYY," meaning a four-digit date field. Presumably, we'll start dealing
with the next similar problem sometime around the year 9990. ;->
>
> Matt Brown
>
> At 04:18 PM 5/23/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Rachel,
> >
> >Thanks to you and all who have responded to my "quick" question.
> >
> >It seems that the ANSI X12 standard calls for 6 digit dates (for DE373)
to
> >follow the format YYMMDD so that June 6, 1999 is 990606 and 8 digit dates
> >are to follow the format CCYYMMDD so that June 6, 1999 is 19990606.
> >
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