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It has already been purposed and some customers are already
implementing it. I know that it has been discused on the internet.
The solution or varents of it have been called "magic dates".
However, the main disadvantage is its not standard.
One of the main problems of the Y2K is that everything is
interconnected. Every date that enters your black box which uses your
standard of magic dates has to be converted and every date that exists
must be converted. Other standard packages can't read "your" dates, try
running SQL on your database it won't know what to do.
In limited cirumstances it can be used successfully, so go for it if
its your solution.
However, the four digit date are really the only unambigous date 2000 is
really year 2000 and 2001 is really year 2001. So go for field
expansion if you can - changes thoses two digit to four digits.
Peter
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