Y2K stuff

From: Megan <mbg_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Jan 4 22:51:00 1999

>This is exactly the stuff I refer to. Whay would an elevator care what
>year it is? Some do days of the week but their clock is not date but
>_day_ so that say on sunday you need a pass key to get in a building that
>would be open during the week. That as far as they go, very
>minimalistic.

It may only care about date, but depending on how the application
was written, it may calculate the day of week based on the *date*,
or it could simply count days 1-7 (rinse) and repeat.

If the latter, no problem... if the former, then the programming
will drift over the years, only getting it right again 28 years
later...

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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Received on Mon Jan 04 1999 - 22:51:00 GMT

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