[ale] y2k not a problem, what about sept ?

[Pete Hardie]

jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:
> 
> I was just thinking about programming, since I started as a programmer,
> and I came to the conclusion that Y2k is not going to be a problem for
> miedum size buiss, but what is going to be a problem is sept 9th....
> alot of programs, use 999 as the end of file marker.
> 
> My question is, are there any linux programs that do use this method ?

AFAIK, 999, or 9999, etc are only used by old, old COBOL and/or PL/1
programs reading in data in some card format - why use a valid date
as an end marker when you have the much better 99/99/99 (999999) date,
assuming that you even use the date field for a marker.

Nothing in Lunux should have any such problems - and I doubt any existing
system in any important capacity have such a feature.

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