Re: Issue of the week
- Posted by irv at ELLIJAY.COM
Sep 28, 1998
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:04:52 -0400, Matt Z Nunyabidness <matt1421 at JUNO.COM>
wrote:
>Can Euphoria help the whole Y2K thingy? Are languages like COBOL and
>FORTRAN our only hope? What'll happen to the earth when the clock strikes
>12 midnight on 1/1/00? I found something scary in Euphoria. The first
>argument date() returns is the year..........In double digits. So 1998
>now reads 98 to Euphoria, and 2000 later will read 00 to Euphoria.
1. COBOL is part of the problem, not the solution.
Anyone who has programmed for more than a week
knows that.
2. Test your assumptions before you post. It's easy
to find out that Euphoria returns the correct
date.
3. Don't post misinformation to multiple news groups -
you are hurting RDS's sales.
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