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Subject:Re: Year 2000 From:"Eady, Sandra" <sae5 -at- CPSTB1 -dot- EM -dot- CDC -dot- GOV> Date:Fri, 9 Dec 1994 15:19:00 EST
I am sure of one extremely large application in which I reported
the "19" hard-coded years as a problem about five years ago.
I was told that it was too costly to change at that time.
I wonder if it was ever updated...
Sandy Eady
sae5 -at- cpstb1 -dot- em -dot- cdc -dot- gov
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>Does anyone else remember the news stories of a
>couple of years ago about the COBOL and other old
>programs that were going to cost big bucks to update
>to take out the hard-code century?
>Apparantly a lot of programs written in the 70s
>are still running and have "19" hardcoded for
>the year.
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