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Subject:Re: Year 2000 From:Heli Roosild <HeliR -at- MSMAILHQ -dot- NETIMAGE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 9 Dec 1994 09:58:00 PST
As a matter of fact, there are companies out there specializing in
converting existing computer applications to recognize 00 as the year 2000
rather than 1900. Evidently this is a major problem, especially for
heavy-duty mainframe data processing programs.
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From: TECHWR-L
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Year 2000
Date: Friday, December 09, 1994 8:49AM
In reply to:
I just had to edit a technical paper and saw a date expressed
as 08/17/00; implying the year 2000.
