Status of the year-2000 DATExxxx draft proposal

[Stephen Tonkin]

Don Wells <dwells at nrao.edu> wrote:
>With strong support from the IAU FITS Working Group, I am issuing the
>following statement to inform all of you that the time has come to
>begin implementing the new DATExxxx syntax in your FITS reading and
>writing software:

This appears to comply with ISO 8601 -- something we should *all* be
trying to follow. For more details on this ISO, and other aspects of the
"Year 2000 problem", take a look at:
http://www.aegis1.demon.co.uk/y2k.htm


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