[[{“value”:”After my post about IBM providing a control option to look for dates that could fall foul of the 2039 issue, someone messaged me to ask:
I think the problem is when date is converted an external representation and converted back. I think of a display file, if the user input in a display file say an expiry date in 2041 how would you handle the display and conversion?
That is a good question. There are times when users should have to enter eight long dates for things like dates of birth, but other dates can be used on a display file as six size long and stored in the database as a date data type. With the impending “2039 issue” how would I manage the need to change from the “1940” rule to another?
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