Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:23:59 GMT From: "Lars" <dnopsamt> Subject: Re: Saab 9000 and Year 2000 compliance
I have to agree with Chris. The car doesn't know, or care what date it is. Lars Chris Ault wrote in message <3843F18B.3BD58AA0nopsamelnetworks.com>... >Gareth Thomas wrote: >> >> My 1990 Saab 9000 Turbo Auto is young enough to be packed full of >> electronics, but pre-dates the concerns and hype about Y2K compliance. >> >> 1st January 2000 looms near and I want to know if I'll still be motoring on >> that day. I'm sure this question will have been asked previously, but is >> there any information out there on tests that have been done or upgrades >> that will be required to keep Saabs around the world running into the next >> Millennium? >> >> Gareth > >My, perhaps simple and maybe incorrect, view of this whole issue is that if >the car doesn't know what day today is, it won't know what day tomorrow is. >Continue this into the future and it won't know when 1/1/2000 or 2/29/2000 >or 1/1/3000 or 1/1/10000 ever happen. If, somewhere in the bowels, there is >the notion of "date", and it doesn't know what "today" is, it's year >indicator can roll over just fine without implication. > >If it doesn't know, it doesn't care. > >-chris
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