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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 12:23:52 EST
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Univac EXEC 8 systems store dates as a 36-bit signed offset from Jan. 1,
1964 (I think that's the right date);  with 2**35 days in either direction,
I suspect that rollover problems are not likely, at least not until your
average COBOL program which changes this into MM/DD/YY get ahold of it 
anyway.....

Actually, one system facility DOES provide MM/DD/YY directly.  Oh, Well.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe