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QASI: Software for Statistical Process Control, Quality Improvement and Management
The British Standards Institute (BSI) has published DISC PD2000-1: A Definition of Year 2000 Conformity Requirements. As of July 1, 1997, neither the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), nor any U.S.-based industry group, to our knowledge, have published a separate definition, or endorsed this definition; however, Quality America, Inc. feels this definition is fully encompassing and provides a suitable compliance definition.
The definition is as follows:
Year 2000 conformity shall mean that neither performance nor functionality is affected by dates prior to, during and after the year 2000.
In particular:
Rule 1. No value for current date will cause any interruption in operation.
Rule 2. Date-based functionality must behave consistently for dates prior to, during and after year 2000.
Rule 3. In all interfaces and data storage, the century in any date must be specified either explicitly or by unambiguous algorithms or inferencing rules.
Rule 4. Year 2000 must be recognized as a leap year.
An Amplification of the Definition and Rules is also provided in the BSI documentation.
QA, Inc., as publisher of the software applications, has determined the following:
SP-PC IV, SPC-PC IV Strater Kit: This product is currently in compliance with this definition. Free software upgrade (excluding manuals) to this compliant release (v3.6) is extended to all registered users of version 3.21 (Jna 95 and higher. Users must provide applicable serial numbers to our Technica Support Staff.
The following information is offered in addition to the compliance definition to clarify the functionality:
i. The Date format for columns in the Data Editor allows only two digit year entry (00-99).
i. When user-defined Data Editor equations, sorting, or Chart Option queries are dependant on Date-formatted columns:
A. 70-99 are inferred as 1970 to 1999,
B. 00 to 35 are inferred as 2000 to 2035,
C. Numeric-formatted columns infer all other year dates as the value "0" (zero),
D. Character-formatted columns infer all other year dates as "N/A" when the Treat blank cells as 0.0 in spreadsheet formulas option in the Preference dialog is turned off,
E. the available year ranges are built into the Microsoft and Borland libraries.
i. "Conversion" of Date-formatted data is not generally required; however, years entered as 01 through 69 in prior versions were valued imprecisly near zero when used in equations, chart queries, and sorting, and must be re-evaluted for consistency to current functionality.
i. ODBC Query results are created as Character columns. As such, the date format as provided by the ODBC driver is displayed as a string of characters. Similarly, any strong or query criteria applied to a date field is conducted within the ODBC driver.
Other Products:
The current release of these products may be compliant; we will not know this until testing has been completed, per the BSI definition, on or before the dates indicated below. Free softwre upgrade (excluding manuals) to a compliant release (if needed) will be extended to all registered users of the version indicated below. |
Updated:
99/11 |
