The bomb is still ticking as of 01/01/1900

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The bomb is still ticking. I found out yesterday that a Visual Basic date formatted to #01/03/2000# is going into a database field as #01/03/1900#! With four-digit years throughout, the company certified the application to be Y2K compliant in early 1999. It all looks OK until the user runs a report.

I expect accountants to be burning the midnight oil all over the world as they try to close their January books!

-- Slobby Don (slobbydon@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000


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