>
> Dear Arthur
>
> I am trying to fill out the Y2K compliance thing the department is
> requesting to be done. My question is, Is ASREML Y2K compliant? What
> do you think?
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
Dear Paul,
The latest copy of the manual contains the following information.
\subsubsection{Year 2000 compliance}
\AAR\ is a Fortran program which should continue to work in the 21st Century.
Dates impact on \AAR\ in two ways.
\begin{itemize}
\item
Firstly, \AAR\ reports the date of the run.
This is purely for documenting the output.
Some Fortran implementations do not have a convenient date function
in which case the date field is left blank or given some arbitrary text
such as {\tt *UNSET*}. If compiled on a compiler which is not compliant,
the reported date will be wrong. This has no impact on the operation
of the program.
\item
\AAR\ has a transformation to convert dates to Julian days.
The valid formats are: {\sl ddmmccyy}, {\sl ccyymmdd}, {\sl ccyyddd} which
explicitly set the century,\\
{\sl ddmmyy}, {\sl yymmdd}, {\sl yyddd} which assume {\sl cc} is 19
if {\sl yy} $>= 50$ and 20 otherwise,\\
{\sl ddmm} which will assume {\sl ccyy} is 1950.
No specific account is taken of leap years. The julian date calculated is
{\sl ((cc-19)*100+yy)*365.25 + dd}.
Therefore \AAR\ is strictly not fully Y2K compliant but I its operation
will in no way be affected by the change of the millenium.
\end{itemize}
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