darkflamemaster on Nostr: COBOL's epoch is 1 January 1601. {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time} So, ...

COBOL's epoch is 1 January 1601. {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time} So, nothing to do with Treaty of the Metre establishing the BIPM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_Convention.

But, it should be pretty simple for a COBOL programmer to video code to call an empty field as a date and then we could be assured. :-)