William F. Barron Compliance Definition

Apart from the mention of "millennium", a reasonable compliance definition has been developed by Seattle attorney, William F. Barron:

"As used in this Agreement, "Millennium Compliant" is the quality of a system to provide all of the following functions:

    1. handle date information before, during, and after January 1, 2000, including but not limited to accepting date input, providing date output, and performing calculations on dates or portions of dates;
    2. function accurately and without interruption before, during, and after January 1, 2000, without any change in operations associated with the advent of the new century;
    3. respond to two-digit year-date input in a way that resolves the ambiguity as to century in a disclosed, defined, and predetermined manner; and
    4. store and provide output of date information in ways that are unambiguous as to century."