Actually in some products quite a lot.  A product that I worked on in the past 
is used by several banks including people who regularly post here and on the VM 
list.  Many of those banks used the product for various things including escrow 
accounts which are VERY long lived.  In several cases that I know about the 
escrow accounts were set up before 1900 so when they were computerized, the 
date algorithms had to handle a non-leap year 00 year.  Worked fine.  Some of 
the escrow accounts go past 2100 and those are working fine also.
 
For that same product the only Y2K issues were making sure that computer forms 
that only allowed two digits for years would be able to work.  Hence a century 
windor for input only was implemented.  Internal dates went from 1/1/1600 to a 
time VERY long in the future (year 10000 something).  In fact, after discussion 
we even implemented the leap year calendar in the past by using negative dates. 
 In most of the cases that users wanted that, only year matter, not necessarily 
month and day so things worked fine.
 
Lloyd
 

>________________________________
> From: "Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected] 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:40 AM
>Subject: Re: Storage Obtain .....
>  
>
>A similar one: 
>How to determine a leap year:
>Q1:Is year a multiple of 4?
>If yes: Q2: is year a multiple of 100?
>If yes: Q3: is year a multiple of 400?
>If yes: it is a leapyear.
>(skipping the 'If No' branches).
>
>Q2 and Q3 will start making sense for the first time in the history of
>computer programming in the year 2100. Until then Q1 would have been
>sufficient.
>How much power has been put into executing instructions to answer Q2 and
>Q3? 
>If I only had a Euro for each program that has this code and will not
>live until 2100...
>
>Kees.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 15:08
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Storage Obtain .....
>
>On 2/12/2014 8:50 AM, Jim Thomas wrote:
>
>>>           XR    R14,R14
>>>           XR    R15,R15
>>>           L     R1,=AL4(WORKAREA)
>>>           MVCL  R0,R14
>
>Minor quibble - when the from length is zero, the from register is never
>referenced nor inspected, so the XR R14,R14 is extraneous. (If I had a
>dollar for every time I've seen this, I could retire <g>).
>
>Gerhard Postpischil
>Bradford, Vermont
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