ENTROPY YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE In an effort to answer questions that you may have about Entropy's Year 2000 readiness, we are issuing this Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure. Due to the nature of the "millennium bug" and the fact that Year 2000 compliance involves the interaction of many systems, we do not believe that issuing blanket "Year 2000 Compliant" statements are useful or appropriate, but rather we are trying to educate you as to the way Entropy uses and interprets dates. Entropy's databases store dates using independent time structures, which support the distinction of any moment in time to the hundredth of a second from January 1, 32767 BCE (Before Common Era) through December 31, 32767 CE (Common Era). Entropy interprets time input in a wide variety of ways as described in the documentation. For each method, 2 digit years are assumed to be 19xx for values greater than or equal to 70 and 20xx for values less than 70. Years entered with 1 or 3 or more digits are assumed to be the explicit year (e.g. 8, 080, 584, 2008, 10954, etc.). Entropy displays twentieth and twenty-first century (BCE or CE) years using a four digit 19xx or 20xx format, and, to avoid ambiguity, first century (BCE or CE) years using a one (x) or three (0xx) digit format. Certain functions of Entropy depend on operating system calls to determine the current time (such as the the etime() directive, the and eTags, and the last updated time for databases and files). These functions may return invalid results depending on the Year 2000 compliance of the hardware, software and operating system Entropy is running under. You should contact your other vendors to determine the Year 2000 compliance of your hardware, operating systems and other software and systems to determine whether they are Year 2000 ready in the same manner as Entropy and whether Entropy will correctly operate in conjunction with these systems. This Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure does not alter or amend the Entropy license agreement or any of its provisions and should not be construed as a warranty of any kind. If you have any further questions, please contact us at entropy@tsdi.com.