February 1999/Date Compression Formats for Y2K Remediation/Table 1

Table 1: Characteristics of various compression formats

*This format was proposed in the article "A Y2K Patch for Legacy Data," by Tanton Gibbs, in the January 1999 issue of CUJ. Where 'T' is '0' - '9' it represents a decade between 1900 and 1999; Where 'T' is a non-digit it represents a decade starting on or after the year 2000.