Users have tested some of our Unix software products for year 2000 compliance. To date we do not have their permission to pass on their contact details. It provides a definition of this expression and the requirements that must be satisfied in equipment and products which use dates and times. This definition has been elaborated in the form of four rules which equipment and products can be specifically tested against in order to provide an objective evaluation of compliance with the general definition. No value for current date will cause any interruption in operation.
Current date means today s date as known to the product.
This rule means that the product must calculate, manipulate and represent dates correctly for the purposes for which they were intended. The meaning of functionality includes both processes and the results of those processes. A reference point may be used by the product for dates and calculations. In all interfaces and data storage, the century in any dates must be specified either explicitly or by unambiguous algorithms or inferencing rules. The software may require the explicit representation of the year in dates entered.