I know of two companies which use 9/9/99 in the date field to mean 'no date
entered' One is a large insurer which used (they scrambled a couple weeks
ago to fix it!) 9/9/99 to mean that there was no end date entered for
medical coverage (eg: coverage is ongoing). The programs prevented the data
entry staff from entering 9/9/99 into any date field which meant that they
could not enter today as a start date for a new employee.
Another company uses 9/9/99 as 'no committed ship date.' Every morning the
printer in the warehouse prints all of the 'to be shipped today' orders out.
I am guessing that they had a mile high stack waiting for them today.
Ron LaPedis
Compaq Professional Services
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From: J. Coon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: September 09, 1999 05:33
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MD: Hoax: 9999999 (was: Y2K compliance Hoax)
EOF marker card was filled with 80 nines, since it was an 80 column
card. The code was being written when the date 9/9/99 was so far off
that everyone thought the program would be replaced by a more modern
technology before it bacame a problem. Using a 9's card to signify EOF
was standard procedure for the industry. I learned it from my classes
at IBM. So I guess according to your perfect 20-20 hindsite, Big Blue
should be forced into bankrupcy for teaching such a poor technique.
Alexander Dietrich writ:
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