On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:46:00 -0500, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. 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! > I'll go 20% better:
DEC PDP-8 had 12-bit words. OS 8 stored each date in a single 12-bit word: 5 bits for day; 4 bits for month; 3 bits for year-1970. I was not in a position to confront it after about 1976. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
