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

I used to work at an hospital where the pathology programs were written in Fortran. The '19' part of the year was hardcoded into many many programs. I'm glad I don't work there anymore. Sue > I don't understand. > > "Short date" is a format, not a data type. The date is still stored in > long form, and you can type in a 4-digit year. It just won't _display_ as > a 4-digit year. Unless it's an historical bibliography, there will be > little ambiguity for the viewer of date fields displayed with only 2 > digits for the years. > > Further, formats can be set in the table, but overridden in forms, reports > and queries. > > I just don't see what the problem is here in most cases. > > Masks are another issue entirely. > > David W. Fenton | > New York University | The way of stylistic tolerance > dfenton@bway.net | dwf4930@is2.nyu.edu | may lead to the final horror of > http://www.bway.net/~dfenton | John Tesh. --Alex Ross, NYTimes