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Year 2000 Compliance: Five Criteria
Year 2000 compliance means that software and hardware resources meet the following five (5) criteria and/or perform as follows:
Software and hardware designed to be used prior to, during, and after the calendar year 2000 will operate without error relating to date data. This includes, but is not limited to, date data century indication and recognition, sorts are correct, data entry will accommodate century where appropriate, and calculations are correct that accommodate same century and multi-century formulas.
Software and hardware will not abnormally end or provide invalid or incorrect results due to date data, especially between centuries.
All calculations and logic of time-related data (dates, duration, days of week, etc.) will produce the expected results for all valid date values within the applications. Calculations and logic include sort algorithms, calendar generation, event recognition, and all processing actions that use or produce data values.
For any date element represented without century, the correct century is unambiguous for all manipulations involving that element. The meaning of dates presented in reports and screens must be unambiguous.
Mathcad Successfully Meets Year 2000 Compliance Criteria
Mathcad 8 Professional and Mathcad 8 Standard meet complete Year 2000 compliance in that each successfully complies with the following criteria, as follows:
Mathcad is designed to be used prior to, during, and after the calendar year 2000 in that it will operate without error relating to date data, by default. Because Mathcad accepts direct input of dates from a user in an open text format, it will not provide invalid or incorrect results for date data century indication and recognition, sorts are correct, data entry will accommodate century where appropriate, and calculations are correct that accommodate same century and multi-century formulas. Therefore Mathcad is in compliance of this criterion.
Mathcad will not abnormally end or provide invalid or incorrect results due to date data, at any time, because it does not store dates as a specific date data type but rather in open text format. Therefore Mathcad meets compliance for this criteria.
Although Mathcad is a desktop calculation software package, it does not perform calculations and logic of time-related data (dates, duration, days of week, etc.). Even in those instances where Mathcad passes dates from or to another routine, date data is defined in the API in the format of open text. Therefore, Mathcad meets compliance for this criterion. For any date element represented without century, the correct century is unambiguous for all manipulations involving that element because Mathcad accepts dates in open text format only; therefore Mathcad meets compliance for this criterion. The meaning of dates presented in reports and screens are unambiguous because Mathcad accepts dates as direct input from the users in open text format; therefore Mathcad meets compliance for this criterion.
Year 2000 Vendor Warranty for Mathcad
Because Mathcad 8 successfully meets Year 2000 compliance, MathSoft, the developer of Mathcad, warrants Mathcad 8 for its Year 2000 compliance. 9.10.98 |
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