Bernie wrote:
>
> Then could you (or someone else) please explain the problem to me? The
> explanation(s) I've recieved (including from people who claim they now) are
> that the computer stores the date as 2 numbers. This is highly unlikely if
> you ask me since a computer stores with either "0" or "1" - 2 numbers
> wouldn't be enough for many years, and even if they meant that it could
> store 99 then it will be able to store 100. (Of course unless Binary Coded
It's not a buffer overflow. Many programms used 9999 intentionally as a
stop
code. Remember all the textbased menu's.
Menu
1. WordPerfect
2. MS-DOS Edit
3. Windows
4. Quake
9. Stop
Many "big" computers used 1 or more 9 as a stop code as well.
"add another date or type 9999 to stop".
This is the 9999 problem. It's related to Y2K 'cause it wouldn't happen
if dates would have been stored as 19990909. This wasn't as widely used
as saving 2 bits causing Y2K, but it did happen on many smaller
computers.
All the banks have sure fixed there programms as this is done rather
easy.
But I'm sure many small programms stopped. Most of those computers run
Windows anyway so crashing once a day shouldn't be a problem.
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Casper Gielen
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