Hi Leonard,

 KS> - Anyone know if KWQ/2 1.2i is year 2000 compliant?

 LE> It doesn't much matter. Last I heard the QWK *format* isn't y2k
 LE> compliant. 

Actually, there is no real "issue" of Y2K compliance as far as the QWK file
format is concerned, it can store any year you like, but only as a 2 digit
number. The "issue" is that the S/W USING the QWK data file must make an
ASSUMPTION regarding the intended value of the YEAR. The problem is that some
of the QWK readers do not make a correct "guess" of that value. 

This should be reasonably easy to do in the S/W, BBS messages should be
written within no more than about 3 months of todays real date, so on a
machine with a date of 10 January 2000, a message being read that indicates 26 
December 99 should be reasonably determined to actually be 26 December 1999.

Likewise on the Server side (the BBS), the QWK uploading section could look at 
the suplied 2 digit date and make an assumption that the intended date is no
more than about 6 months old, but again, this assumes the BBS QWk Server has
been set up to handle the rollover in an intelligent manner.

If the QWK Server and QWK Client code is written intelligently, they should be 
able to handle this situation and things should work fine, but unfortunately
not all QWK S/W has been upgraded to handle this situation.

Cheers..........pk.


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