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1. 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Dave Houser <mgs4dave@warwick.net>; Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:57:54 +0000; As I sign off tonite, I'm reminded that my birthday tomorrow has a special meaning in the old computer code leading to possible Y2K probs. At 9/9/99, programs were scheduled to stop. Is this so? Tha; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00393.html (7,117 bytes)
2. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:06:53; No, it's not so. I don't know who started it. What we USED to do was, typically in databases, use 99/99/99 as an end-of-records marker. There's lots of special-case code that used 99/99/99. However I; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00394.html (7,708 bytes)
3. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:28:05 -0400; Don't know whay either - But I have seen it. It only affects stuff that has a date calc dependent on the field that uses the 9999 as a missng data holder. Mostly I agree with Tab - The universe will; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00403.html (8,741 bytes)
4. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:38:38 -0400; Hmmm... unfortunately 99/99/99 isn't a valid date, so many programs will not accept it. Especially those programs from the "old times" when using *SIX* rows of core to hold a date would have been gro; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00407.html (9,019 bytes)
5. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:54:03 -0400 (EDT); I know it's not a valid date, that's why it was used - there was lots of special case "if it's 99/99/99 then (it's the end of the database marker) otherwise it's a valid record)" and lots of loops to; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00418.html (9,939 bytes)
6. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>; Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:38:48 +0000; As an old COBOL programmer (nobody laugh... you *love* that old piece of technology in your garage)... my prediction is that, as far as my life is concerned, unless I pay any attention to the media a; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00421.html (7,686 bytes)
7. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:19:48 -0600 (MDT); 9/9/99 is the end of Unix time. Unix has a counter that counts seconds since it was first started I don't know how many years ago. on 9/9/99 the size alloted for the counter will be filled and unix w; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00436.html (7,882 bytes)
8. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: "Harlan Jillson" <hjillson@argohouston.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:01:22 -5; Unix time is calculate from the number of seconds elapse since midnight Jan. 1 1970. The number is stored as a signed 4 byte integer ( why it's signed I don't know as it looses half of its range), a; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00439.html (8,671 bytes)
9. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Rick Brown <mgrick@ptd.net>; Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:29:19 -0400; Happy birthday Dave! You're lucky you dont have any chips in YOU! Rick; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00459.html (7,453 bytes)
10. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:00:34 -0400; Interesting as I just installed a software license for a program on a Sun station with an expiration date 0f 20381231 or Dec 31, 2038. The license was issued with no knowledge of the OS version on th; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00469.html (9,774 bytes)
11. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Michael J Robson <miker15@juno.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:18:16 -0400; On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:57:54 +0000 Dave Houser <mgs4dave@warwick.net> Happy Birthday Dave - I heard on the news that the only thing to shut down today was various lotteries around the USA - apparentl; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00478.html (7,754 bytes)
12. Re: 9/9/99 (score: 1): Author: Michael J Robson <miker15@juno.com>; Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:36:59 -0400; Its getting like "revenge of the Nerds" in here. . . . . Aren't UNIX blokes "sans knackers" in charge of a harem!?? mike robson vulgar obnoxious and rude with a few cars!; /html/mgs/1999-09/msg00479.html (7,917 bytes)

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