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

> > I think you underestimate the problem with 2 and four digits in our > beloved computer systems. There are examples which show that even 4 > digits year systems have problems, e.g. change in WINDOWS 3.1 the date > to 31-12-1999/23:59 and turn off your computer. Restart the system > after a few minutes and you will end up with a system date of > 1-1-1980/00:02. All calculations that include the system date will be > wrong. > Heck I can turn my PC off now and turn it back on and it doesn't know what time it is anymore. Why should I wait four years? cheers j. ________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com Currently on loan to PLD/PE ________________________________________________________________________ Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx) ________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. ________________________________________________________________________