The approach of the year 2000 is being seen with both great joy and great foreboding. So far, working in the 20th century, each system merely assumes that the century is 19.
Accounting systems are especially interesting.
By law, account details must be maintained for 5 or 7 years for tax purposes. These will have dates with 6 character fields. The following pages highlight some of the problems, point to other sites detailing problems and finally point to some ways of overcoming the problems.