The web is full of such conflicting reports. Are there any list members
out there who can shed light on the problem (if it is a problem)?
For those unfamiliar, dates are an important part of the software
systems utilized by both government and industry. As far as I
understand, the problem lies with the fact that most software developed
during the past two decades for mainframes, client/server and personal
computers recognizes years by only two digits ("96" for 1996) instead of
four digits. When a date-senstive function requiring the year 2000
("00") as operative input is performed, bad things *can* happen
(crashes, silly results, inaccurate records, etc.) The problem interests
me insofar as we have less than three years to solve it. Enough time? I
don't know, and hence this post.
Regards,
Hagbard