Re: HELP! YEAR 2000 BUG: How will it affect you?

Posted in 1996

Joe Lumbley — Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:49:50 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Jack Parker (jparker@boi.hp.com) wrote: : > <snip> : divisible by 100 or 400 are worrying about the year 2100. I sure hope : my code isn't still running then - what a pain to support from beyond the : pale. Programmer's dual definition of hell: a. Still being alive then and having to support it... b. Being forced to support your code for eternity.... (think I'll start going to church....) Seriously....this thread certainly points up the fact the we as programmers **really are** confused about Y2K...lots of folks missed the not divisible by 400 exception. Joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------