Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:45:23 -0700
From: thibaud@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Francois P. Thibaud)
Message-Id: <199511080245.TAA08146@neit.cgd.ucar.EDU>
To: ccm-users@ncar.UCAR.EDU
Subject: 2000 (the year)
Hi !
Below is a quote from URL:
http://www.software.ibm.com/year2000/index.html
"Just what is the Year 2000 transition? It's a phenomenon caused by
years of writing programs and databases with only two digits to
represent the year in the date fields. Wherever that has been the
case, systems and applications will yield incorrect results when the
year is 2000 and only "00" is used in computation.
The difficulty for many businesses comes in assessing what
applications have date-sensitive programs; how many need to be
altered; what it takes to actually make the changes to the source code
and data files; and finally, running tests to ensure that everything
will work with either the 20th or 21st century dates."
How about the CCM and it's history tapes, the Omega model and it's
history tapes, the coupled system and it's history tapes?
Kind Regards !
Fran=E7ois P. Thibaud <thibaud@ucar.edu>
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) and
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