[cwbriscoe]

I did a lot of COBOL Y2K work in 1998-2000 and I have never once heard of any 1875 epoch related to COBOL until the last few days. We either modified code to use windowing functions or we just full converted to 4 digit years depending on severity. For instance, windowing code for front end, 4 digit years for DB, VSAM and flat files.

"The implementors* of the SS system chose 1875 as the epoch date for reasons"

So, they invented their own date system instead of just using the standard CENTURY-DATE or an ISO-8601 date from their DB. Highly doubt...