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

["Raffael Cavallaro" <raffael@mediaone.net>]

>From: Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>

> A fix would have to be arbitrary, but no more so than the current function is.
> Maybe change the cutoff from 90 to 60?

What about people who deal with dates in the 1950's? Lots of people still
living were born then, so a database with birthdates would have plenty of
dates from the 1950's and earlier.

The fact is, *any* 2 digit date is hoplessly ambiguous, and interpreting
such dates must be special-cased by a given application. In certain
circumstances you *want* '57 to mean 2057, in others, you want it to mean
1957. There could be no all purpose fix.

Raf

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