At 08:29 PM 1/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> Is it? My current credit card has an expiry date after the end of this
>> year and I've never had any problems with it.
I've got a credit card that expires in '00 and it doesn't work!!! Oh wait,
it's at the limit. Never mind. 8^)
>I think that 'maintenance errors' could potentially occur in power plants,
>and what is more likely, some will be shut down just in case.
Sure, and since I might crash into a building, I'll drive my car into one,
just in case. There are a lot of people out there looking at what will
happen on 1/1/00 (and, btw, 1/1/99, 2/29/00, 1/1/27, etc.) myself included.
As a related anecdote, I recently found (and fixed) a M12 bug -- the system
I wrote to manage events and generate web pages and e-mails for the Free
List (
http://www.sinasohn.com/freelist/) crashed and burned at the
beginning of December because I had screwed up the date computations. A
few frantic hours later and the Free List went out, better late than never.
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Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 19:04:09 GMT