Sir I would like your help in finding out just who or whatgroup had the final decision in the govnt. date code for the two digit year. Thank you Larry

-- Larry Lamb (gfmd@tgi.net), October 08, 1999

Answers

Larry-it is my understanding that about 1969 in the middle of the Vietnam War that the Pentagon,under a bit of pressure from the White House to decide one way or another,opted for the two digit year. This at least is what I read. The Jan 99 issue of Vanity Fair had an inter esting y2k article,and I think that's where I read it. If so the Vietnam War comes back to haunt us again-Howie

-- Howie (biggguy79@hotmail.com), October 08, 1999.

Well, what else would they pick? Abbreviate last names? Addresses? Social Security numbers, or whatever else was there? We're talking 30 years ago, and who was responsible is moot now. Blame ain't the game...being prepared is.

-- Kevin Brown (kevnbrown@hotmail.com), October 11, 1999.

Who is to blame for the Y2K problem? In 1968, the NIST, an arm of the Federal Government specified the use of six-digit dates (FIPS-4!

http://www.nist.gov/y2k/fips-4.htm http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0111/fcw-polcarl-1-11-99.html http://www.texemarrs.com/plntsd.htm http://www.texemarrs.com/fedinv.htm

-- eg (eg63@worldnet.att.net), December 02, 1999.