On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, at 17:04, Charles Mills wrote: > I am not an applications guy, and I didn't do any applications Y2K > remediation, so I am not an expert, but it would seem to me that if I > had used windowing I would have based the window on the current date -- > today minus 80 years or something like that -- so that it would never > fail (in this way -- of course, software has many ways to fail). It > would work as well in 2040 as it did in 2000.
You're oversimplifying though. In a particular application there may be many dates - eg a customer's birth date, marriage date, retiral date and - say - the future date on which some contractual thing will mature. Thye'd likely all have different windows. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
