Title :
Techniques for addressing the Year 2000 transition
Author :
Liang, Chungti ; Phelps, Brad ; Tan, Jack
Author_Institution :
IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Abstract :
Most programs written in the past will be encountering the Year 2000 transition problem in a few years. Those with two-digit representations of dates will be incorrectly interpreted by these programs. Efforts are underway to avert a potentially disastrous industry-wide software nightmare. The authors address the problem by discussing various techniques for averting such a potential disaster
Keywords :
data integrity; database management systems; Year 2000 transition; programs; two-digit data representation; Application software; Arithmetic; Credit cards; Hardware; Information systems; Lifting equipment; Sorting; Stock markets; Transaction databases; Waste materials;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8105-5
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625035
