Grip is, has been, and always will be Year 2000 Compatible.What
causes Y2K incompatibility?
Y2K problems stem from the way computers store dates. In the olden days, programmers
stored dates as characters, and only used two characters to store the year, to save hard
disk space. Hence, years were stored in two-character strings such as ‘90’,
with the ‘19’ being assumed. When the year 2000 happens,
these programs will assum the first ‘19’, so they’ll think the year is
1900.
Storing dates the right way
There is an easier and faster way to store dates that is called the Magic PC
Integer formula. This method computes the number of days, as an integer, that have
passed since some ‘floor’ date (in Grip’s case, Jan 1, 1901). Since your
computer always knows what today’s date is, it has no problem computing how many days
have passed since an arbitrary date in the past. This method also makes it easy to compute
the difference between two different dates merely by
