Re: Y to K problem solved at last!

[Joshua Eskin <josh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Erickson wrote:


> Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget. We
have gone through every line of code in > every program in every system. We
have analyzed all databases, all data files, including backups and historic
> archives, and modified all data to reflect the change.
...

> Speaking of which, what do you think we ought to do next year when the two
digit year rolls over from 99 to 00?


Not to worry, Bob.  The real Y2K problem will not occur until the year 2048
(2k in binary, of course) at which point all year counters will roll over
from 11 bits to 12, spilling countless one's and zero's in the process and
causing an assured collapse of the global economy.  Our strategy to handle
this probem is to be dead before it happens.

=Josh
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