Re: Y2K compliance

Posted in 1998

Jonathan Leffler — Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:19:44 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

davidt wrote: > Can anybody tell me if these informix products are Y2K compliant: > 4GL 6.0, ISQL 6.0, Online 7.1, ESQLC 7.1 According to the rules, No, No, No and No. That means that they do not support DDBCENTURY and will translate 2-digit years to a date between 1st January 1900 and 31st December 1999, even in the year 2037 (shortly before your Unix box falls over because the time overflows the signed 32-bit integer). See also a posting from me today about why Informix 4.1 is not Y2K-compliant by these rules. The products will safely store, retrieve, enter and display dates with 4 digits for the year. They behave as documented for 2-digit years, but the documented behaviour is probably not what you want in 400 days or so. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>