Re: Millenium Problems

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. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+