| Re: vn5.4 woes (today missing) [message #23114] |
Thu, 04 January 2001 08:47  |
wmconnolley
Messages: 106
Registered: November 2000
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David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote:
> I thought all those date/time structures went away in IDL 5.2
> because they could not be made Y2K compatible. You must still
> be working on that data archive, William. :-)
Hmmf, this is in fact working on climate model data, which ran past
2300 well before y2k came. And it seems to work still, once the right routines
are copied into place.
-W.
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William M Connolley | wmc@bas.ac.uk | http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/icd/wmc/
Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | Disclaimer: I speak for myself
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| Re: vn5.4 woes (today missing) [message #23170 is a reply to message #23114] |
Sat, 06 January 2001 13:16  |
Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995
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<wmc@bas.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3a54a92e.0@news.nwl.ac.uk...
> David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote:
>> I thought all those date/time structures went away in IDL 5.2
>> because they could not be made Y2K compatible. You must still
>> be working on that data archive, William. :-)
>
> Hmmf, this is in fact working on climate model data, which ran past
> 2300 well before y2k came. And it seems to work still, once the right
routines
> are copied into place.
The lack of Y2K conpatibility lay in the fact that ONE of the routines (I
forget the name) would accept 2-digit years and do something not very smart
with them. The routine also accepted 4-digit years so people prescient
enough to use them would never have noticed a problem.
Pulling the IDLDT stuff was a lawyer-driven panic.
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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand
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