On 21 May 2010 08:10, Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010 06:43:42 -0400 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" > <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote:
> :>Indeed. On the flip side, not every Y2K bug was worth fixing. At NSF > :>we had a monitor that showed the date as 19100; the only real effect > :>that bug had was to provoke the occasional chuckle. > So it was smart enough to know that it needed 3 digits for the end part of the > year, but then it concatenated the string '19' in front? > One wonders who programmed such a thing (unless it was PL/I which would do > that automatically). Typical C programming style combined with C library behaviour produced this in many many programs. I have a Windows fax program that came with a Dell machine in 1998 or so (called Focal Point - long out of business). It still runs fine, except that it cranks out the date as 19110. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
