ACH Operators and software vendors have told the National Automated Clearing House Assn. The work group, which included financial institutions, companies, ACH associations and the federal government, concluded that changing the date fields in ACH record formats would be more costly to the industry that simply having software developers make appropriate programming changes. The decision represents a year-long effort to make sure the ACH Network is prepared to handle the turn of the century.
Any system is affected if it uses a date as an element that triggers another routine in a program.