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Conference tpsys::dsm

Title:Digital Standard MUMPS
Notice:MUMPS the Database System of the Future
Moderator:DSM::SCHWARTZ
Created:Fri May 01 1992
Last Modified:Tue Mar 18 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:984
Total number of notes:3314

984.0. "Year 2000 Compliance status?" by ALICAT::MACKAY (Don Mackay) Thu Mar 06 1997 20:00

I have been asked about the level of Year 2000 compliance of MUMPS
and I can't find any reference to this in either this conference
of the appropriate DIGITAL web page.

Can someone please let me know what the story is?

Thanks

Don Mackay
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984.1CIVPR1::BANOVSKYTue Mar 18 1997 11:3422
    DSM is now owned by InterSystems ... you might want to check their
    web site -- www.intersys.com.  There is also a M Technology web page
    at www.mcenter.com that might have a more generic statement on M and
    the year 2000.


    Any ANSI MUMPS implementation (i.e. DSM) should not have a year 2000
    problem itself.  The problem is in the way an application might use
    dates.  

    In ANSI MUMPS, the date and time is maintained in $H format --
    "date,time".  Where time is the number of seconds since midnight and
    date is the number of days since since December 31, 1840.  Using a $H
    date has no problem with year 2000.

    However, if an application converts a $H date to some other format and
    stores it that way (e.g. 12/25/97), the application will have to be
    adapted.

    Hope this helps.

    - Mike