How about one of use big brains come to my assistance, Please and thankyou.

The internet has been developed only because of the standards that have been set (protocols). This allows all of us to communicate with one another via email,data,video etc. Alot of the standards have been and continue to be set by esoteric organization, the IEEE being one of them.

This is great for the internet, but when it comes to Y2K and Dale ways essay it is very disconcerting to know that in the Huge systems like our financial system there are no protocols between entities just add ons and that is going to be part of the problem. One entity remediating his or her way and the other entity remediating their way without any standards in place. This should be Fun!!!

-- d.b. (dciinc@aol.com), November 12, 1999

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TCP/IP possibly not compliant???

Say it ain't so!

-- semper paratus (always@ready.now), November 12, 1999.

Brings to mind the Tower Of Babel.

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), November 12, 1999.

Hello,

I have worked with TCP/IP. Both have optional timestamp fields which if enabled are stroed as 4-byte fields.

The standards recommend (but do not insist) that IP timestamps are displayed as milliseconds since midnight. I think TCP is similar.

These timestamps are normally used to calculate round trip times of packets and other such statistics. I don't think there is any problem there.

Given there is only 4 bytes to play with and millisecond accuracy is required, I doubt that anyone is going to put the century into the timestamp.

Rest easy, TCP/IP won't go belly-up.

Regards,

Shuggy.

-- Shuggy (shimei123@yahoo.co.uk), November 12, 1999.