I wondered if anyone else found it ironic that all of JBB's change log
entries for Y2K remediation use a non-standard date format with
two-digit years.  :-)

Hummmph...

I've been using standard date formats (ISO 8601) in all of my
modification log entries since 1995.

Walter "more standard than you" Murray  :-)

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On: Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:10 -0700, Michael Berkowitz
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>
> Given the dawdling that MIS did with Y2K, it's never too early
> to fix that possible Y2.1K problem right now while we've still
> got 91 years

...
12    ;/D/   V 2.0 - CA Business Ident. No.            JBB 95 JUN 29
13    ;/D/   V 2.1 - Revise for eight digit dates      JBB 97 JAN 10
14    ;/D/   V 2.2 - B3 ex-warehouse entries           JBB 09 MAY 11
...

As it happens, I had cause yesterday to modify a program.  The
change log indicates that we made the necessary changes for Y2K in
January of 1997.  This is "Dawdling"?

Just to make sure I checked all the other source code files:
...
43    ;/D/   V 5.8 - Revise for 8 digit dates          JBB 97 JAN 03
...
13    ;/D/   V 1.5 - Revise for eight digit dates      JBB 97 JAN 10
...
2     ;/D/   V 1.1 - revise for eight digit date       JBB 97 JAN 10
...
24    ;/D/   V 4.1 - Modified to handle 8 digit dates  JBB 95 JUN 23
...
4     ;/D/   V 1.2 - Modified for 8 digit date         JBB 95 JUN 23
...
9     ;/D/   V 1.7 - Change for 8 digit dates          JBB 95 JUN 23
...
3     ;/D/   V 1.1 - 8 digit dates + variable period   JBB 97 JUN 12
... and so on...

I cannot find a single change log entry having to do with eight
digit dates more recent than June 1997.

Dawdling.... hummmph...

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