[Info-vax] Significance of 2020 / 2021 date

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 12:33:57 PM UTC-5, Andy Burns 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.

Ah yes, I've seen those - OpenVMS has it!

nitpicking - year XX below 20 would 20xx, and above it would be 19xx

Hein