MITRE - Y2K - Ada Solutions

The following Y2K material has been kept available by MITRE for historical purposes only and has not been updated unless noted.

Ada Solutions for Compliant Date Routines

There are various approaches to developing compliant libraries and routines which will provide the bridging mechanisms to convert and use various date formats. The example provided here has the routines necessary for displaying and converting two-digit year formats and four-digit year formats.

Below are links to an Ada Dates Package Specification and its corresponding body, an accompanying routine needed to compile the Dates Package, and an additional Dates Utility Package for use with the Ada Dates Package.

Ada Dates Package

Ada Utility Package

Suggestions or Ideas
We would like to add more information about solutions. If you have current activities, suggestions or ideas, please consider sharing them via the solutions idea form. One such solution we would like to share is Tim Hawkins' idea to use a mapping that would not require changing the size of date data in existing databases.

For More Information
For more information on estimating the problem and its ramification on information systems, see the MITRE Solution Briefings.
For further information directly related to Year 2000 issues, please contact Year2000@mitre.org