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Besides 9/9/99 used to always be stored as 090999 -- not as 9999.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Fritz <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
To: RealTraders Discussion Group <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, August 15, 1999 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Arch Crawford 9/9/99
> One of the most fascinating dimensions of Arch Crawford's
> prediction of an imminent downdraft in the financial markets is the
> fact that 9/9/99 corresponds to the line of code ("9999") many
> programmers used to signify the end of a program -- are we going to
> get a taste of Y2K earlier than expected?
I can't speak to the coding habits of COBOL programmers in the 50's,
who may have used arcane things like that. But overall I would be
very surprised if any programs used a "9999" date as an end test.
For one thing, both the month and date fields had to support two
digits, even *BEFORE* Y2K. :-)
Gary
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