Over the last few months we have been working on adding features to Suprtool
to help make the impending century change more palatable. I have noticed
that a *lot* of other third-party vendors and application programmers are
of course doing the same.

A common thread is that some people are specifying a cutoff parameter so that
they can assume a particular century based on the year value. This is of
course for those date formats that only have a two-digit year.

The problem with this of course is the user must insure that the cutoff date
is the same for all his/her applications, in order to get consistent results.

I propose that HP create a setable HPDATECUTOFF variable so that all
third-party software companies and application programmers can retrieve
the value of the variable and use this in their application. This will
insure that the Cutoff value will be consistent for all applications.

Of course, personally I think that everyone should be moving to four-digit
years, or maybe even six-digit years. :) Sorry I couldn't resist.

e.g.
  0019970211
  ccccyymmdd

Neil Armstrong