Thread: Y2K Returns
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Old December 31st 17, 05:44 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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On 30/12/2017 02:10, Big Al wrote:
The real issue was display and user input. We stupidly programmed the
engine to just assume 19xx years. How were we to think of 2000 when
the engine was developed back in 1970 or so. Anyway we had to apply a
30/70 rule to dates that 12/31/17, 17 was less than 30 years in the
future so thus it was 20xx, but 12/31/90 was greater than 30 years thus
19xx. And we had to create a special format for MM/DD/YYYY as we
always only displayed 2 digit years.


I did a similar job with an old Foxpro/DOS+Netware information system.

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