Thread: 'We're really sorry': US sends 14,000 draft notices to men born in 1800s
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Old 07-11-2014, 08:21   #6
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Originally Posted by Richard View Post
Yep - a low-level data input operator just using the range of years 93-97 w/o identifying a century (18 or 19) = GIGO and

And so it goes..

Richard
This is a millennium error. All the 2 digit yr codes should have been changed to 4 digits 15 yrs ago and the field audit should also have been fix'd..

My org started fixing the date codes in the mid-80t's.

Just plain stupid..
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