[Info-vax] Significance of 2020 / 2021 date

[abrsvc]

On Thursday, 7 January 2021 at 15:38:19 UTC-5, 1tim.... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 11:52:35 AM UTC-7, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> > On 2021-01-07 18:40:56 +0000, Hein RMS van den Heuvel said: 
> > 
> > > 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? 
> > >> 

Without seeing any of the code, we can speculate till the cows come home and never  uncover the real problem.  I too have seen all kinds of trickery to get around 2 digit year storage and the change from 19 to 20.  Given that the century remained the same here, I suspect a different issue. 

There are many of us here (myself included) that can provide assistance in tracking this down.  Just because the code is old does not mean anything.  I am working with code now that was last modified in 1988 and is still running fine.  Other code written recently has issues (go figure...)

Dan