Subj : Y2K Toilet Paper
To   : GILLES BEAUREGARD
From : CHRIS CRANFORD
Date : Tue May 23 2000 11:28 am

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-> Allo!

->  CC> Gerry, yes It is... We are recommending that you make sure your 
-> system  CC> is set in the "mm/dd/yyyy" format instead of the 
-> "mm/dd/yy" format so

->  My choice is to use yyyy/mm/dd, so their can't be any mistake between
->  02/01/2000 and 01/02/2000. Feb, 1st or Jan 2nd? For USA base reader
->  no doudt, but, with other part of the world can have hard time
->  with US date format.

This is so true, and that is where you have to make sure that your
software is reading the configurations (either in windows to check the
users format specified) or in the BIOS settings from the PC.. This takes
a little work to do, but it saves your application from "choking" when
being used Internationally, been there ..  I had an application I wrote
a long time ago and I automatically "assumed" date format to be mm/dd/yy
or mm/dd/yyyy .. A user was trying to use it in Europe and he had his
system set to dd/mm/yy and my system got everything right except for
switching the month & day .... embarrassing enough, I figured it out and
fixed it .. but have to make sure we think of EVERY possibility when
considering dates!

Chris Cranford
TKD Software, Inc.

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