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dkjaudyeqooe
on Feb 17, 2025
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Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875...
Absolutely not. You don't enter false values pretending to be accurate, you put in a null value or other marker. You want it to make no sense so it's not mistaken for real data.
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