Re: Millenium Problems

"Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@informix.com> wrote: :Billy Wheeler wrote: :> :> On 13 Sep 97 at 15:07, Michelle Peridis wrote: :> :> > In the company I work for we run Informix-SE (4.11) on an Unix :> > platform. Will we have problems coping with the Year 2000? It has :> > always been common practice for us to set DBDATE=DMY2/ :> :> You should try setting DBDATE=DMY4/ and altering all your date fields :> appropriately. You should consider an upgrade to (I think) 5.08 to :> gain access to the very useful DBCENTURY environment variable. But :> you *will* have problems if you don't change your DBDATE and date :> fields... : :It's actually version 5.10, which is not available yet. :-) : :SE has always been year 2000 compliant. It's just down to how you :capture and display the dates. So I agree with Billy, start converting :to 4-digit years ASAP Additionally you should check your Unix for year 2000 compliance. There are some versions with problems. If there is a problem and it isn't too old there should be a patch available from your supplier. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org