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> From: Visnja Beg [mailto:vbeg -at- NEWBRIDGE -dot- COM]
> There is also a problem on older mainframe systems with the
> date September 9, 1999 because the date
> "9/9/99" was programmed as the last possible date.
Yep, it's the old "all nines". Sometimes used to mark a record as "not real
data" or "The End".
But when I used that method, the date I used was "99/99/99" which isn't
coming up. Some programs may have stuffed the numbers through a
date-handling function which might convert it to "9/9/99".
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