[ale] [EXTERNAL] Re: Stupid people and DST

[Allen Beddingfield]

I'm pretty sure that for most cases, aside from the one running COBOL, they will just set the clock back a couple of decades and keep going.
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu

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Well, those people have 13 years to find an alternative. I recently
converted one of my 1985 Turbo Pascal 3.0 programs to FreePascal on
Linux. If they were using Clipper, Foxpro, DBASE, etc, there's the
modern Harbour Project to convert to a modern Linux executable,
although obviously a few source code tweaks will need to be made.

I'm pretty sure a few source code tweaks are all that stand between an
SCO Openserver 5 Cobol program and a brand new GNUCobol program. 13
years.


>Not everyone upgrades things that just work....

I agree, almost completely. Upgraders following fashion trends deserve
what they get. But stuff breaks, and replacement parts become
unavailable, and eventually things that just work (until they don't)
become impractical.

SteveT

Steve Litt
March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition
http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm
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