Year 2000 Compliance Definition

To be compliant a system/process must:

• Handle date information before, during and after midnight, December 31, 1999
  including but not limited to accepting date input; providing date output; and
  performing calculations and comparisons on dates or portions of dates. Date
  interpretation and manipulation must be correct for all valid date values within the
  application domain

• Function accurately and without interruption before, during, and after January 1, 2000,
  without any change in operations associated with the advent of the new century.

• Respond to two-digit date input in a way that resolves the ambiguity as to the century in a disclosed
  defined, and predetermined manner. Interfacing software must make the same century assumptions
  when processing two-digit years.

• Process 2000 as a leap year.

• Correctly handle any date fields containing non-date information and correctly handle a date held in
  a non-date field.

• Correctly process any date with a year specified as "99" and "00", regardless of other subjective meanings
  attached to these values

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