y2k stuff

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Jan 4 21:00:39 1999

Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com> wrote:
> It seems hard to believe (in retrospect) that people really did
> deliberately build software with only 2 digit years.

Oh, and one other reason: people were accustomed to only writing two digit
years when they dated things. It was natural to enter things into computers
in the same way. And it was natural to store the data in the same format
(or at least a similar format) to what the user entered.

Eric
Received on Mon Jan 04 1999 - 21:00:39 GMT