Re: Year 2000 Solutions Conference

r l reid wrote: > > Well, now it looks like that system was so well designed that it will > be operating well into the next century. And when the original designers > get together and marvel at how long it's lived, they say, "that was > real well designed. In fact, if we had to do it all over again, there's > only one thing we'd do differently - USE 4 DIGIT YEARS". Ahem. Maybe using a numeric as "days since the epoch" so the date arithmetic would be easier and the size of the date as stored on the database would have been at least as small. But 4 digit years? I somehow don't think so. -- Mark Charette "Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers" charette@mika.com - Firesign Theater An "Original Designer" (tm)