Is the Alumni Directory Year-2000 compliant?
There’s been a lot of hype in the press recently about the Year 2000 Problem. Experts say that computer programs that deal with 2-digit years (such as 93) will get confused in the year 2000. To alleviate any fears you might have, the Alumni Directory has been made Year-2000 compliant. All graduating class information is stored as 4-digit years, although it is displayed in 2-digit format for compactness on some pages. If an alumnus enters a 2-digit date when submitting a new listing to the Alumni Directory, I treat that date as either 20 years in the future, or 80 years in the past. For example, in 1998, if someone entered ’13 as a graduating class, it would be converted to 2013; if they entered ’45, it would be converted to 1945. When confirming their submission, the alumnus will see the adjusted 4-digit year. Other dates, such as the last-updated field of an alumnus’ listing, are stored in the UNIX date format, which is the number of non-leap seconds since January 1, 1970. A formula i
