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by davesmylie 2297 days ago
Sure. On systems under your control.

It's the network of interacting systems that prevents this from being so simple.

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Yep, the super fun of getting a Y2K compliant specification of how the data will come over the interface only for it to fail and have '1910' instead of '2000' in the 4 character date field that worked in test. People on site to correct problems were a needed item for some even after testing.