At 1:00 PM -0700 8/13/02, Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Via /. the NYT has an article:
>
>    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/12/technology/12CODE.html
>
>talking about the expansion of the US UPC code from 12 to 13 characters in
>2005 in order to both keep from running out and to bring the US standard
>into parity with the EAN (European) standard which is currently 13 digits
>and requires importers to get different tags and numbers when bringing good
>into the US currently.
>
>Time to start searching those database schemas for "UPC" and "X12"?

Fortunately, all of us got lots of experience on y2k projects :-)

Changing the databases will be the easy part (ItemChange is a tiny
subset of DateChange). Changing the programs will be a bit tougher.

Rolling up my sleeves,

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