Personal y2k issue [was: *ping*]

[David Alban <alban@datawire.com>]

At 1999/12/31/01:56 -0800 Benjy Feen <benjy@feen.com> wrote:
> So, er, um, how's everyone doing?  
> 
> Has anyone experienced any Y2K issues in the field more critical than 
> "date on man pages may be formatted incorrectly"?  

Not "in the field", but...

I have a y2k issue at home which impacts me greatly.

I was using X11-based "xfinans" as my personal finance program (which
I liked, because it stored its data in easily readable ascii files,
on which I could run homegrown scripts).   Although xfinans stopped
being supported a few years back, it claimed it was y2k compliant in
that it had: 

  - Refined handling of date-input around the turn of centuries; when
    only two digits are given for the year, the date is assumed to be
    within +/- 50 years of the current time. This allows you to use
    e.g. '01 for 2001 now, and to use '95 for 1995 in year 2000. Of
    course you can still use four digits to supply dates outside this
    range.  

And, indeed, for the last few months I've been projecting my finances
through the end of April 2000 without any problem.  It handled post-1999
dates with no trouble.  Of course, now that it is "post-1999" it can't
handle *any* date without trouble.  (Yeah, I should have set the system
date forward, but I didn't...)

So I downloaded checkbook balancer version 0.79 (the latest I could
find).  It seems to be suffering from a bug some perl programmers have
unwittingly included in their code:  instead of treating the year
returned by the list context time functions as an integer to be added
to the number 1900, it seems to be treating it as a string to be
added to the end of the string "19".  (In the test account I made,
following my installation of cbb, I noticed the year being stored in
the file as "19100".) 

So can anyone recommend a good X11-based program with which one can do
personal finances?  (Or does anyone have info on whether cbb is still
being updated, and if so, if y2k fixes will be forthcoming?)

Thanks!
David

P.S.  Although this isn't exactly a work-related sysadmin question,
      I figure there have to be sysadmin types on this list who use
      X11 programs for their personal finances...or am I a
      trailblazing pioneer? :-)
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