Why No Sign of Failures from Albany? - comp.software.year-2000

Message from discussion Why No Sign of Failures from Albany?

cory hamasaki

More options Apr 15 1998, 3:00 am

Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000

From: kiyo...@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)

Date: 1998/04/15

Subject: Re: Why No Sign of Failures from Albany?

  Reply to author
  |
  Forward
  | Print
  | View thread
  | Show original
  | Report this message
  | Find messages by this author
  

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:19:40, Jo Anne Slaven <sla...@rogerswave.ca> wrote:

> Jo Anne Slaven wrote:

> > Being an accountant who has worked with many mainframe and PC accounting
> > systems, I can tell you that when a new fiscal year starts, the system
> > has to know what the last day of the fiscal year will be. For a fiscal
> > year beginning on, say, April 1, 1999, there will be 12 monthly
> > accounting periods it will have to recognize. April 30, 1999 up to March
> > 31, 2000.

> > In my mind, I can see the computer thinking that the months are out of
> > order just as soon as fiscal 1999 is closed and fiscal 2000 is opened
> > up. Then what happens? Will it show Jan 1 00 as the first day of the
> > fiscal year by accident? Or will the software simply decide that the
> > whole thing is just too ridiculous for words, and shut down completely?

> > As you should be able to tell from my comments above, budgeting probably
> > won't be the important issue here. Getting the system to recognize the
> > fiscal year will be the issue.

> I realize that it's tacky to follow up to my own post, but if what I've
> said above is the case, there are only 8 1/2 months to fix it.

> Jo Anne

Makes sense, FY98, FY99 is not issue. As you point out it's the actual date
of the end of the period. If FY99 ends in September 1999, no obvious problem.

Stop me if you heard this one before.... nah, like any old fogger, I'll tell
the same tired story again... 000197AF, it's on the webpage. The failure
happened on December 1, 1979. The software was trying to figure out what the
last day, hour, minute, second of the month was... Ah-ha, it said, it's the
second before 00:01.00 January 1, 197A.

It happened as the first jobstep ended and the SMF and billing was being
calculated in the early morning of December 1, 1979.

So our new pal, Jo Anne (of Jo Anne's Bed and Back stores?) has solved the
question of where the New York FY problems have gone. The nest of problems
occur 1 year before the first second of 2000. It's too early.

FY98, FY99, are just names, they don't mean anything. It's the actual
bounding datetimes that matter.

Good going, Jo Anne, you win this week's c.s.y2k technical breakthrough award.

.and this proves the value of c.s.y2k over all those other venues.

Amazing, it's so clear now. Aren't the rest of you embarrassed?

cory hamasaki 00197AF <----<<<< I was first.

Reply to author Forward