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Message-ID: <E41EB534459B4A14BC4D2ABA@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local>
Date: Mon Jul  4 04:18:32 2005
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: alert: the 111111 bug

--On July 4, 2005 12:03:02 AM +0100 lsi <stuart@...erdelix.net> wrote:
>
> For this customer 11/11/11 in the date field means, don't process
> this record, which will obviously cause problems with legitimate
> transactions on that date.
>
> I suspect using a new field to flag a state, instead of "special"
> data, would have been more appropriate.
>
Not to worry.  The 11th of November, 2011 is a Saturday.  No one will be 
working that day.  :-)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/

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