NASA is Fixing Year 2000 Compliance in Year 2014
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Year Format, NASA
“DoD, GSA, and NASA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register at 79 FR 16274 on March 25, 2014. No public comments were submitted. The final rule makes no changes from the proposed rule. DoD, GSA, and NASA are amending the FAR to delete obsolete coverage relating to the year 2000 compliance at FAR 39.002, 39.101(a) and 39.106. Also, the rule makes conforming changes to FAR 39.107 and the introductory text to the clause at FAR 52.239-1. The year 2000 coverage is outdated, and no longer needed because all of the issues addressing the transition to year 2000 compliance language have been resolved.”
They’re just trying to clear the decks so they can start bidding out contracts for the Y3K change.
The Y2K fiasco was an almost unlimited source of directives and requirements that had little or nothing to do with actual software.
Before we get to the Y3K change the 2200 change will come into play about 2150.
We will get the Millennium Bug squashed in the end.
Before that there’s the 2038 problem.
381203… what’s wrong with that?
Why don’t they just tell the truth and state “no longer needed because all of the issues addressing the transition to year 2000 compliance language is now OBE.”