In 1281901727.14657.141.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net, on 08/15/2010
at 02:48 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net said:
Believe it or not, our 20xx dates are encoded x'9A001' for 2000,
Which would imply that you had to track down every program that did
arithmetic on dates.
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Subject: Re: date formats
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:27:39 -0500
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 08:23 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In listserv%201008131709378676.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 08/13/2010
at 05:09 PM, Paul
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:48 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote:
Believe it or not, our 20xx dates are encoded x'9A001' for 2000, and so
on up the alphabet. I wasn't in on this, so I don't know where it
terminates. But x'9F' is the max - 2015. So the world better end in
2012! grin
x'90'
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