----->>> On 29-Jul-1999, Bassem Allam wrote: > Hi flowers, > We have a young EPICS C flow cytometer (just 10 years old) > which is in pretty good shape, an we plan to keep it active > for the next couple of years. In these machines, the date is > configured daily using 2 digits. That why I'm wondering if > someone have any idea about problems that may occur related > to year 2000. Does there any reason to worry about that ?? > Thanks in advance -------------- I'm working on an FCS file editor, one function of which will be an automated date changing function. So if there are Y2K problems you can set back the date on the cytometer, and then change all the files in one shot after collection. This will be a free utility, and will do other keyword editing too, but a big motivation is just to provide a quick and dirty solution to the Y2K issues that will affect many of the cytometers out there. The design spec is to just add a user-specified number of years to the $DATE keyword, and to write it back to the file (using 4 digits for the year). The original date field will be put in a different keyword, and the program will also be able to restore the file to its original state. If anyone has more elaborate requirements than that, I'd appreciate it if you'd drop me a note. Adam ----------------------------- Adam Treister adam@treestar.com Summer of 99 special -- FlowJo for a year for $99 http://www.treestar.com/flowjo/summer99.html 650-508-9349 -----------------------------
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