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Has anyone considered the real concern here. It's not 2079 or 2899, but
when you input, export or correct data. If the year is 2002 do you
specifiy a year of 102, when you import historical data from 2001 do you
have to write a conversion so the year is 101 and when you export data
for another program how do you tell the programs that 103 is really
2003????
Ted
Gerrit Jacobsen wrote:
> Pierre,
>
> > The yk2 problem is fixed now in Easy language, and the data format
> > allowed is YYYMMDD instead of YYMMDD. (YYY=000 is year 1900)
>
> This is very interesting because it suggests that Omega did not
> change the size of their data format otherwise they could have used
> a YYYY format since LongInt covers 2^32 days - enough for some
> prophets to come.
>
> And if I am right then the data format is still word which means
> 65535 days. So if 000 = 1900 then the software will run only for 179
> years = 2079 and not until 2899.
>
> I suspect that some Frenchmen (and MB) given enough steak and viagra
> might live until then ......
>
> Gerrit
>
> This in turn means that TS 5.0
> does not run until 2899
>
> > The yk2 problem is fixed now in Easy language, and the data format
> > allowed is YYYMMDD instead of YYMMDD. (YYY=000 is year 1900)
> >
> > This means that as serious problem will arise very soon as the
> > compliance will fail after 12/31/2899.
> >
> > Consequences could be dramatic:
> > We expect to discover some planets in a close neighborhood of the
> > solar systems (if it still exists) during the next centurires.
> >
> > So, it will be obvious that human life will take place there, and
> > that probably exchanges will open and actively trade. Due to the
> > travel duration, and according to Einstein's work, it will be a
> > long time to send upgrades, security blocks and user's manual by
> > regular Fedex intergalactic.
> >
> > It's not impossible that a trading system written on earth during
> > this period will fail when traded on any Alpla Centaurus exchange,
> > because the fix will not be received in time.
> >
> > Not to speak of the disastreous effet on the local population
> > relying on the Earth's leading trading software.
> >
> > So, to avoid any new problem , I urge you to send an Email to:
> >
> > Request_TSfix_Y2900@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > with all the appropriate comments.
> >
> > The list message will be compiled and sent to Omega Research ASAP.
> >
> > A high number of message collected will help us to enforce Omega
> > Research to fix this unacceptable problem. Type now!
> >
> > Thanks for your attention.
> >
> > Pierre Orphelin
> > www.sirtrade.com
> >
> Gerrit Jacobsen
> http://www.tickscape.com
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