The truly "fun" part about Y2K was that IBM solved the problem in the early 60s with just 6 digits. CFO-64 was a life insurance application they wrote in Autocoder that was my first encounter with what EDS-ers called "mo-year" code. Dates were stored as a 4 digit number of months since some epoch (sorry, I don't remember the actual epoch month/year...) and a 2 digit day of the month. Some how or another EDS "acquired" the source and ported it to BAL as LMS. IBM wasn't actually worried with Y2K then, they were just taking care of policies for folks born before 1900!
With 9,999 available months, that code was fine for well beyond Y2K, which by the way, is actually still 28 years away... :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
