On Apr 22, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's nowhere near as bad as Y2K. Y2K potentially affected just about > everything. Everything with a date calculation. Everything that accepted or > printed a date. >
That’s an important point. Dates are often used in calculations. SSNs mostly just used as keys and stored. For Y2K we had to fix code that was doing date arithmetic, but you wouldn’t have that if they expanded SSNs. -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
