Year 2000 Compliance Definition

ICL's Year 2000
Compliance Definition

ICL does not believe that the Year 2000 issues can be addressed by any "standard" definition of Year 2000 compliance. It does believe that any single Year 2000 definition can be used as a benchmark against which compliance can be measured. This document defines what constitutes compliance in relation to dealings with suppliers and customers.

Definition of Compliance when Responding to Clients:

When ICL indicates to a client that an ICL product or solution is Year 2000 compliant, it will satisfy the following four requirements:

The product or solution will operate with current date values after Dec. 31, 1999.
The product or solution will accept, store and process dates after Dec. 31, 1999.
Date elements in the product or solution, including its interfaces and data stored in it, will specify the century unambiguously by format or century inferencing (also known as century pivot point).

Explicit representation of year date by format: Four digit fields are used for the year format or a century indicator exists.

Century inferencing: Two digit years with a value greater than a set number implies the year 19xx; those with a value equal to or less than the value implies the year 20xx.
Year 2000 will be recognized as a leap year.

Note 1: These requirements do not mean that the product or solution must operate with all possible dates after 31^st December, 1999. If there is a date limitation, considering what the product or solution is intended for, specify the date limitation.

Note 2: Specify if compliance is dependent on compliance of other products or solutions or data files.

Note 3: Notwithstanding our formal response to our clients, ICL as a supplier to our customer works to meet the compliance definition we require of our suppliers.

Definition of Compliance when Inquiring of Suppliers

A supplier's product or solution is Year 2000 compliant if it can be demonstrated that it will satisfy the following four requirements:

General Integrity: No value of current date will cause any interruption in operation of the product or solution.; Current date means today's date as known to the equipment or product. Rollover between all significant time demarcations (e.g. days, months, years, centuries) will be performed correctly.

Date Integrity: Date based functionality must behave consistently for dates prior to, during and after year 2000 and produce correct results in accordance with the products or solutions functionality.

All equipment and products must calculate, manipulate and represent dates correctly for the purposes for which they were intended.

No equipment or product shall use particular date values for special meanings; e.g. "99" to signify "no end value" or "end of file" or "00" to mean "not applicable' or "beginning of file".

Explicit/Implicit Century: Date elements in the product or solution, including interface and data stored in it, will specify the century unambiguously by format or century inferencing (also known as century pivot point).; Explicit representation of year date by format: Four digit fields are used for the year format or a century indicator exists.; Century inferencing: Two digit years with a value greater than a set number implies the year 19xx, those with a value equal to or less than the value implies the year 20xx.

Year 2000 will be recognized as a leap year.: February 29, 2000 is Tuesday. March 1, 2000 is a Wednesday

Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure

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