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In the past when code was tight and memory scarce, it was standard practice to use two-digit storage (for example 68 for the year 1968) for date code within software. Unfortunately, when the clock rolls over at midnight on the last day of December 1999, many computers won't recognize "00" as the correct date. This Year 2000 (Y2K) dilemma may potentially render many applications and hardware ineffective, unless the code is altered. This is a global problem that will affect everybody and must be seriously addressed since time is a crucial factor. The Year 2000 situation affects the mainframe environment most heavily, but it can affect PCs as well. Any company that is running older software and hardware must pay attention to revising date code in programs, and possibly even updating software, the operating system, and even hardware. Other areas of concern are the millions of access-control, point of sale, process-control, and other peripherals that utilize date-stamping and grouping functions embedded in firmware. Year 2000 in a Nutshell addresses three main aspects of the Year 2000 dilemma: Awareness. Covers main issues such as: compliance, costs, event-horizons, embedded dates and systems, date-stamping, timing, staffing, and benefits of Y2K conversion. Managerial. Covers considerations such as: triage (when the Y2K conversion process isn't started soon enough), legal issues, budgets, and standards. Also covers a project-plan: inventory, analysis, logistical estimates, planning and strategies, conversion, and testing and implementation. Technical. Covers: dates, Julian day, windowing, single-digit century, file and database date conversion, and PC issues. In addition, this book provides reference information on the date and time functions in those languages most likely to be affected by Year 2000 problems, including Cobol, PL/1, and Visual Basic. This section will be valuable for those programmers forced to dredge up old skills to analyze or revise code that may not be Year 2000 compliant. Because Cobol is particularly likely to be a problem, the book provides a complete Cobol quick reference. This is a valuable guide for those programmers who have been assigned the task of making the Cobol code Y2K compliant, but haven't had much experience with the Cobol language. The book also provides Visual Basic source code for a simple scanner designed to look for date and time functions that need to be altered for Y2K compliance. Although the code is written in Visual Basic, it can easily be converted into other languages. Whether you are a manager, a programmer, or even a user faced with the Year-2000 date compliance issue, this is an essential book that will help guide you through this crisis.

About the Author :
Norman Shakespeare is a private consultant with 20 years of experience in electronics, PC and mini hardware, networking, programming, and training. Before writing this book he spent two years consulting at a large financial institution on asset-finance, insurance, and telephonic banking. A significant part of this job was programming in Visual Basic and Access. He enjoys this hands-on side of computing and is in the process of developing a code-scanning tool specifically for Year-2000 use. Prior to the financial position he was the academic head of the Computer Training Institute where his leadership and technical input to the popular computer science courses resulted in his admission as a Member of the prestigious City and Guilds of London Institute (MCGI). He was responsible for writing a lot of the courseware at the Institute, experience that set him up for full-time technical authoring. He has a long list of advanced computing and technical diplomas and qualifications, the acquisition of which appears to be one of his hobbies. Originally from Zimbabwe, he has lived in South Africa and Canada and traveled through Europe, Asia, and America (where he gleaned much of his knowledge for another of his hobbies, fiction writing).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781565924215
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media
  • Publisher Imprint: O'Reilly Media
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1565924215
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 1998
  • Binding: Book
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 330 gr


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