[78-L] "Negative Y2K"...or hazards in computerized discography...?!

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Fri Jun 5 20:37:34 PDT 2009


Okeh...I noticed that the current milk box I'm MS-Accessing happened to
be one of my original "in order" boxes...in this case, containing my 
holdings
in the Vi 18601 to Vi 18736 group! I copied the appropriate segment of
VICTOR.C8T for assistance; I had copied that file to a *.txt file, which I
duly opened! However, Excel had carefully converted all the MM/DD/YY
dates to *21st* century dates....xx/xx/19 became xx/xx/2019!

Understandable...but guaranteed to confuse the <expletive deleted> out
of we collectors of 78rpm phonorecords (and WWI historians?!)...?!

...stevenc 




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