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> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: date formats]
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In <1281901727.14657.141.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net>, on 08/15/2010
at 02:48 PM, John McKown said:
>Believe it or not, our 20xx dates are encoded x'9A001' for 2000,
Which would imply that you had to track down every program that did
arithmetic on dates.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:48 PM, John McKown wrote:
>
> Believe it or not, our 20xx dates are encoded x'9A001' for 2000, and so
> on up the alphabet. I wasn't in on this, so I don't know where it
> terminates. But x'9F' is the max - 2015. So the world better end in
> 2012!
>
x'90' 1990
x'9a' 2000
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From: John McKown
Subject: Re: date formats
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:27:39 -0500
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 08:23 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In , on 08/13/2010
>at 05:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>
> >I'll agree enthusiastically except where the
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