Hi Michael:

Took a quick peek and it looks nice.

I hadn't logged onto the OAC since the early 90's - over a 2400 baud modem!; nice to see my California taxes going to good use <g>.

Later

At 04:42 PM 12/14/1999 -0800, Michael Mitchell wrote: >Greetings > The year 2000 is getting near and we would like to invite you to >visit our Statistical Computing and the Year 2000 pages if you would >like more information about handling dates in the year 2000 and beyond >in packages like Stata, SAS, and SPSS. We have created web pages to >help you assess whether you have Y2K problems with your research data >and, if you do, how you can solve these problems in SAS, SPSS and >Stata. We invite you to visit these pages at >http://www.oac.ucla.edu/training/stat/ >and then click on "Statistical Computing and the Year 2000". > In short, those who are at greatest risk are those who 1) analyze data >that contains dates, and 2) the dates are stored using only 2 digits to >represent the year (e.g. 12/25/99 instead of 12/25/1999), and 3) you >will soon encounter dates for the year 2000 (e.g. 1/1/00). For example, >if your data contains "date of birth", and the dates are stored in a >format like 12/25/99, and you will soon be analyzing birth records for >January 1, 2000 and beyond, then you may soon encounter Y2K problems in >analyzing your data where 1/1/00 will be interpreted as January 1, >1900. This could cause results like the age of newborn children being >100 years old. For further examples of such problems, and suggestions of >how to solve them, please visit our Y2K pages in the link given above. > >Best new year wishes, > >Michael Mitchell >UCLA Office of Academic Computing

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