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Re: Y2k patch CANNOT be Y2k compliant - TS2000 also?



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In a message dated 99-07-12 06:37:42 EDT, lwright@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Another thought: Note that the date above requires 8 digits. Single
>  precision is normally only 7 digits. If dates are read as numbers in Easy
>  Language, it will *NOT* be possible to make EL Y2k compliant, simply
>  because there are more digits in the YYYYMMDD format than can be
>  represented by single precision. 

Don't think this is what single precision implies.   First date could be an 
integer, but from what I remember of my programming days,  we are talking 
about the number of decimal places.   The root number can still be quite large