Re: Question: How will the Year 2000 bug impact your work?

>>>>> " " == Sundial Services <info@sundialservices.com> writes: In article <info.4234.00388885@sundialservices.com> info@sundialservices.com (Sundial Services) writes: > As for the "I can't find your order" problem, it's worth noting that > queries can, and no doubt will, be run to ensure that dates are > in-bounds and that triggers, validity checks and other mechanisms > are probably already in place now. After all, it would not do for > an order to be entered with a date of, say, 1978, any more than > 2099. Order entry systems probably already -have- date checks of > this sort .. they simply -have- to. Which means that order entry systems which currently have date checking and are not upgraded to handle four digit dates will just stop working in the year 2000, because all dates will then be out of bounds. -Alan Harder ash@math.ams.org The above commentary, which does not *even* represent the opinion of the American Mathematical Society, is sold by weight, not by volume. Some settling of the contents may have occurred during shipping.