[Info-vax] Significance of 2020 / 2021 date

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-07, Andy Burns <usenet at andyburns.uk> wrote:
> issinoho wrote:
>
>> We have some old 90s VAX C code which rejects any dates after the year 2020
>
> Does this use 2 digit years or 4 digit?
>
> Some systems use "date windowing" and assume e.g. yy below 20 means 19yy 
> otherwise it means 20yy.

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the date but I would have
expected the check to be for less than 1-Jan-2020 instead of 1-Jan-2021
unless someone decided to be different.

Simon.

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