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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun May 24 09:27:48 2020, in response to Re: Did you know there is a pandemic going on?, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat May 23 23:51:07 2020. Not entirely related, but when I worked for the USC (Southern California) Bookstore, the main software we used was called RATEX. The RATEX date handling was set up counting from January 1, 1968, which was assigned the value 1. All subsequent dates continued from that day. The great thing was that there were no Y2K issues with this system (I left the bookstore in June 1998 for my current job in South Florida, but we had already started Y2K mitigation before I left). The only issue was when we reached day #10000. The system produced weekly sales reports (Sunday-Saturday, IIRC), using the date system, so for example starting on a Sunday (say day# 9783) through Saturday (day #9789) (I just picked those numbers out of thin air, no idea if those really were a Sunday and Saturday respectively. Those of you with "high scores", feel free to calculate) :) Well, day 10000 occured mid-week, the problem was, the day # field was only 4 bytes. So we went from say 9997 to 0003, so the report was messed up. I forget exactly how, but I was able to put together 2 reports, one with the 999* numbers, and another with the 000* numbers, and I just told the department managers to combine the totals. I informed the store director of the issue, I don't know if he contacted the programmer to fix it, and not long after, I left, so it was no longer my problem. 10,000 days is like 27 years and change, I've been gone for 22 years, so it will be awhile before the problem pops up again if they didn't increase the size of the field. Or for all I know, they may have an entirely new software system. |
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