This document describes the technical characteristics of the NTX Access applications and database with regards to Year 2000 (Y2K) date and time issues. Compliance was tested using NTX Access v1.8 on Windows NT 4.0 SP4.

The NTX Access Control Service applications have no inherent Year 2000 problems. All date/time values are stored and retrieved with complete century information. All date/time modifications preserve century information. Leap year (or lack thereof) is also identified properly.

All date, time and timestamp fields are retrieved as 32-bit integer, double, or TIMESTAMP data types.

NTX Access was tested using a continuous 365 day cycle from 98.01.01 to 99.03.01 inclusive. The tests were performed with the Standard Edition (Access 97 (JET 3.5 database)) and Enterprise Edition using a Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 database.

Since NTX Access is dependent on the integrity of other components such as the back-end database and operating system, there are some issues outside the control of Internet Transaction Services, Inc. We will make every effort to notify clients of such issues as they become known, but it is ultimately the responsibility of the client to confirm their systems' Y2K compliance.

That being said, you should ensure that your hardware (NAS included), operating system, database server, etc. do not have Y2K problems of their own.

These are some additional resource locations for Y2K issues: