[AccessD] 2010 Bug hits Germany

LOL,
or someone slept 10 years???

I dont think it has to do with Cobol or the millenium bug, since it is one 
version of the chips in these cards, and this chip as for sure been designed 
within the last 5 or less years. just a sloppy chip design.

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] 2010 Bug hits Germany


> Bavarian Basic?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:53 PM
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> Could be something to do with signed integers in Cobol or similar?
>
>
> Max
>
>
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: 05 January 2010 20:45
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] 2010 Bug hits Germany
>
> Oops!  Somebody cut a corner and expected to fix it later. Maybe the
> expiration date is split into pieces and only the right digit is compared 
> to
> the current year last digit or something similar. Odd that it's unique to
> Germany.
>
> GK
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34706092/ns/technology_and_science-securit
>> y/
>>
>> Why would this happen?
>>
>> Max
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