Year 2000 Compliance
The information contained on this page constitutes a Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure under the "Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act"
Since all dates are entered in a "YY" format, you might be wondering how the
upcoming turn of the century will affect the program. Fear not, it won't. All versions of
SCBA Trak and SCBA BOSS will handle the year 2000 correctly.
SCBA Trak and SCBA BOSS do use a one hundred year cycle to allow you to enter the dates
with just the last two digits of the year, but the cycle runs from the year 1940 through
the year 2039. If the date format is set to MM/DD/YY and you enter a date of 01/01/40,
SCBA Trak and SCBA BOSS assume the year is 1940. If you enter a date of 12/31/39, SCBA
Trak and SCBA BOSS assume the year is 2039.
Selecting an alternate date format, like YY-MM-DD, does not change how the dates are
processed internal to the program. All date calculations are still handled correctly. To
emphasize this point, the printed report headers show the full four digit year.
At midnight on December 31, 2009, the cycle will change from 1940 through 2039 to 1960
through 2059. If you are still using any fifty year old life support equipment at that
time, you should think about upgrading your equipment.
One important point we need to stress is that your computer equipment needs to be able to
handle the century change also. SCBA Trak and SCBA BOSS have date validation routines to
help assure grossly erroneous dates are not entered. For instance, if you try make a
"date accomplished" entry that's in the future from what your computers'
built-in calendar thinks "today" is, the entry will be rejected and a message
displayed.
Also, each time SCBA Trak or SCBA BOSS is started, it checks your computers' built-in
calendar. If your calendar date is set to before the date your copy of SCBA Trak or SCBA
BOSS became available (an obvious impossibility), you'll get a warning message.