Re: [MacPerl] [ALBOT] Mac Y2K Oops?

[rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J. Kimball)]

Richard Gordon wrote:
> 
> On 2/6/99 at 21:42, dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com (Doug McNutt) wrote:
> 
> > Why do you say that? If it fits the published description it's as good as
> > any other assumption.
> > 
> Time to change the assumption. I say go from 90 to 60.
> 

So, "fix" the problem by changing from the reasonable, documented
assumption to an equally-but-no-more-reasonable, undocumented assumption,
at the very last minute.

Not only will you still have the ambiguity of two digit years to deal with
(and now someone working 60 years in the future has to watch out), you also
have to deal with this change to the toolbox less than a year before Jan 1,
2000, and you have about whether your application will run on systems that
haven't been patched and still use the old method for resolving the
ambiguity.


Ronald

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