Re: Is Informix Year 2000 Compliant?

Posted in 1996

Peter Jennings — Fri, 06 Dec 1996 10:02:44 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Billy Wheeler wrote: > > On 5 Dec 96 at 15:01, Martin wrote: > > > Does anyone know if Informix will suffer from the year 2000 problem? > > Au contraire, Informix have a number of elegant ways of handling the > problem. However, no amount of cleverness on their part is going to > save you from bad programming, and you have to update to latest > versions.... > -- > Ciao, > > Billy > > I'd be in favour of apathy, but I just couldn't be bothered... Yes, Informix, even our (old) V5, can handle any year between 1 and 9999 PROVIDED YOU GIVE IT ALL 4 DIGITS. Our version currently assumes 19xx if you only give it 2. Peter Jennings.