I worked at such company that had 1 digit years. The routine(s) to keep them straight across the decades I never did fully understand.
OTOH, I also worked at a small Insurance company. The best (non) joke was when a client called regarding a new build discount she was getting on her house. The house was built in 1892. Matthew On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:46:00 -0500, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. <supp...@dunnitsys.com> wrote: >2 digit years???? I recall a shop who throughout the 70's implemented 1 digit >year dates across their files because of the precious cost and availability of >DASD space. In 1979, someone there took are hard look at what the future held >in store. So they did a full conversion project and changed all of their date >fields to..... 2 digit year dates! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN