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

Ray Porter (lrp@email.adp.unc.edu) wrote: : Still, overall, I think this problem has been far overblown by the media : and : alarmists in our own profession. It is a problem that has to be : addressed. : Fixing it is going to be tedious and more or less time consuming but not : particularly difficult. In fact, it probably won't take all that much : time : if people will quit worrying about it and just do it. It's just another : maintenance task and one that we have over 3 years to complete. Yes and no. You are right if you are arguing that the complexity has been overblown. However, this is a much bigger problem for financial, and HR systems, which do a lot of calculation using dates. The work is indeed tedious, but it is also long, particularly in systems that are not well documented. You say you did this while doing new development. That would imply that there are people working on enhancements to the systems. Many systems, including a lot involved with the Federal Government, may require FINDING everywhere where these fields are used, not to mention finding the fields. I don't think that the effects of doing nothing are overblown. Bottom line is, if you do nothing, your systems will not work reliably. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Julie Holm (ENTP)| DoD #1604 AMA#397939 UKMC# 0001 VOC# 4672 jholm@gmu.edu | 1985 Virago 700 "Maureen" |*** Nasty Girlie Gang Armourer, Shopping Consultant, | and Travel Agent!!! | I'm home at http://osf1.gmu.edu/~jholm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/L/IT d@ s-:- a+ C++$ UX/H/O/S+>+++$ p+ L E---() W++(+++) N+++ o? K- w$ O M-- V PS++(--) PE@ Y+ PGP- t+(+++) !5 !X R tv-- b++ DI+ D--- G e++ h---- r+++ x++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------