We have never lost any years, we (the proverbial we) did in-fact delete
about 14 days in the 1500's off of the calendar to make everything add up.
Although the Y2K problem is not based on the millenium, it is based on two
digit code. And although we would like to think we have beat it, the fact
remains that there are about 20 some more dates in the Y2K scenario left
between now and 2100, they are as follows (X indicates completion):
X January 1, 1999 - to ensure that the digits "99" do not trigger a
red flag result
in erroneous branching, or otherwise cause a processing error or
that "time
error" faults occur
X FY2000 for business and industry - Depending on the business the
FY could
start on March 1, 1999, July 1, 1999 or match the government
fiscal year of
October 1, 1999.
X August 22, 1999 - Overflow of 'end of week' rollovers (e.g. GPS).
X September 9, 1999 (9/9/99 or possibly 9999) - to ensure the
digits "99" or
"9999" do not trigger a red flag, result in erroneous branching,
or otherwise
cause a processing error
X October 1, 1999 - First day of Fiscal Year 2000
X January O, 2000 - - to ensure this date is NOT processed (some
applications
do have this problem and count January O as the day before the
1st)
X January 1, 2000 - key date in any compliance testing
- January 3, 2000 - first full work day in the new year
- January 10, 2000 - first 9 character data in YYYY/MM/DD format
(2000/l/10)
- February 28, 2000 - to ensure the leap year is being properly
accounted for
- February 29, 2000 - to ensure the leap year is being properly
accounted for
- February 30, 2000 - to ensure that this date is NOT processed
- February 31, 2000 - to ensure that this date is NOT processed
- March 1, 2000 - to ensure date calculations have taken leap year
into account
- October 10, 2000 - first 10 character date
- December 31, 2000 - 366th day of the year
- January 1, 2001 - First day in the 21st Century
- January 1, 2001 - Overflow for Tandem systems
- After January 1, 2002 - to ensure no processing errors occur in
backward
calculations and processing of dates in the 1980's and 1990's at
this point in
time
- February 29, 2001 - to ensure that this date is NOT processed as
a leap year
- February 29, 2004 - to ensure that this date is processed as a
leap year
- January 1, 2010 - Overflow ANSI C Library
- January 1, 2011 - to ensure the digits "1111" do not trigger a
red flag, result
in erroneous branching, or otherwise cause a processing error
- November 11, 2011 - to ensure the digits "111111" do not trigger
a red flag,
result in erroneous branching, or otherwise cause a processing
error
- September 30, 2034 - Overflow of UNIX time function
- January 1, 2037 - Rollover date for NTP systems
- January 19, 2038 - Overflow of UNIX systems
- September 18, 2042 - Overflow of IBM System/360
- January 1, 2072 - Overflow of Milstar Operating System
- February 28, 2100 - last day of February, ensure that this date
is NOT processed
as a leap year
More food for thought...
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Etien T. VanDenBroecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 13:20
Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium
> Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we
all
> lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all
that I
> know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to
be a
> big money making scam.......
>
> Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine heard on
the radio
> that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run
> generators for the Y2K blitz!!
>
> HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
> Etien
>
>
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote:
> > There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A
> > millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through 1000 AD
was
> > the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern
> > forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for
> > thought...
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote:
> > > | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT
> > > | Happy new Millenium all...
> > > |
> > > | --
> > > | Full plate & packing steel! - Minsk
> > >
> > > I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not starting
until
> > > 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the entire
year
> > of
> > > 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two millemia. This
way,
> > by
> > > the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts.
> > >
> > > The finest the new millenium has to offer to all,
> > >
> > > Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > >
>
>
