Here's a thought:

You could use Hourglass in reverse!

Keep your machine in the current year and run your
REX reports in a 1972 "Hourglass" account!

I assume that your "application" is Y2K compliant
but it is only your "report writer" that is not.

(This idea is untried and untested.)

 -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy Pierce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 12:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Y2K & REX
>
>
> We use REX, the once-popular report writer, a lot.  Since the
> compiler can't
> be taught to run past 12/31/99, we've decided to keep the date on our
> development machine set to 1972 (nicely matches 2000).
>
> Does anyone know of
> a) legal implications?
> b) a better way?
>
> K Tracy Pierce, Systems Programmer
> Golden Gate Bridge, Hwy & Trnsp Dist
> P.O. Box 9000, Presidio Station
> San Francisco, CA  94129
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
>
>