Author: Mark Young
Date: 03:13:32 03/24/99
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On March 24, 1999 at 02:23:23, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On March 24, 1999 at 02:02:06, alfred palang wrote: > >>i am wondering if our chess programs, especially the commercial ones, would have >>a problem tackling the y2k bug. please respond to my query. your answers will >>greatly be appreciated. my decision to purchase my next batch of programs >>should depend upon your answers. > > >I have CM6K, Rebel 10, and Shredder2, I have run my date past 2000 and I have >not found any problems with these programs. So for those I would say they are >okay. > >I would think with today commercial programs, only a stupid programmer would >write something that does not take this into account. > >Yet again my ISP spent a fortune ungrading their hardware and software, only to >find when I paid for the year for my account it did not understand the 00 as the >exporation date on my VISA card. So they are still some stupid people and >companies out there who still do not take Y2K into account I had the same problem when I order some chess stuff over the internet. I was ordering online and had to put 01 as the year my credit card expires. Well needless to say I had to call to order as their online ordering program for the website said my credit card has been no good for almost 100 years. :)
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