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Re: vn5.4 woes (today missing) [message #23160 is a reply to message #23118]

Mon, 08 January 2001 02:08

wmconnolley
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William Daffer <whdaffer@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz> writes:

>> The lack of Y2K conpatibility lay in the fact that ONE of the routines (I
>> forget the name)

> str_to_dt.pro, I believe.

>> 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.

> I agree. I pulled them out of idl 5.2 and use them daily in all of
> my processing at work. If you use 4 digits, there's *absolutely* no
> problem!

OK, thanks for the reassurance, I'll continue to do the same...

-W.

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