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Fwd: Project Database and Year 2000 Compliance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jun 10 17:34:50 1997
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 17:34:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: project-db@MIT.EDU
Not sure if the rest of the team saw this.
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 97 18:12:00 EDT
From: Karen Fortoul <FORTOUL@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Project Database and Year 2000 Compliance
To: "William D. Cattey" <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: PROJ-DB@MIT.EDU, Y2K Team Mailing List <Y2KTEAM@mitvma.mit.edu>,
Roger Roach <rar@MIT.EDU>
Woops .. sent the original mail to the wrong address ...
- Karen -
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I'm following up on some v-mail I left for you several weeks ago in
regards to the Project Database and Year 2000 Compliance. As you
know, I am coordinating MIT's effort to address the Year 2000 issue.
On May 2, Tim sent mail to the proj-db mailing list about not being able
to enter 4-digit years. (Rocklyn also sent mail about the same
problem.) I later heard from Greg Anderson that there was discussion
about the issue and a decision was reached to implement "near-century"
support, rather than use a 4-digit year.
Based on all my knowledge regarding the Year 2000 Problem, I think it is
critical that all new applications at MIT be Year 2000 compliant by
using 4-digit years. Even for old applications, where fixing by
changing to 4-digit years may be more work and more costly in the
short-term, I am making a strong recommendation that the 4-digit
solution be used at MIT. I can go into more details regarding my
reasoning, but any other solution is likely to cause more problems in
the long-run.
I would like to meet to discuss this issue further. I think it is
important to discuss the implementation of Year 2000 compliance.
I also think it would be valuable to understand the process and
how and why the Project Database was released without being Year
2000 compliant. This will help understand how we can avoid this
problem with future applications.
Please let me know when a good time to meet is. Also, if you can
forward a copy of all the proj-db mail discussing Year 2000 compliance
(or give me access to it), that would be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Karen Fortoul
fortoul@mitvma.mit.edu
x3-5555
