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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 07:19:35 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SNET: Millinium Bug A Hoax ??


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Here is the patch, in Fortran:

Change:

INTEGER*2 YY
REAL*4    DATE

to:

INTEGER*4 YYYY
REAL*8    DATETIME    /*  19970823.112233 is 8/23/97 at 11:22:33 a.m.

...

YYYY = YY + 1900
DATETIME = CC*1000000.+YY*10000.+MM*100.+DD+HH/100.+MM/10000.+SS/1000000.

or something comparable in COBOL,
C, and the myriad of other languages.

I am being half-facetious, because the
logic above is not bit-wise exact.

But, you get the idea, right?

Ask any programmer what s/he has done
when the number of records in a given
file exceeds 32,768.  Aha, there's THAT
number again.

/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com




At 12:54 PM 8/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 8/23/97 12:51:40 PM, you wrote:
>
><<The Year 2000 problem (years stored by their last two digits will
>overflow from "99" to "00" when the year passes from 1999 to 2000,
>causing miscalculations and misunderstandings) is not a huge problem
>of computer software, nor a unique problem, nor a difficult problem to
>solve, but it is the focus of a huge and unique racket.
>
>The racket treats the Year 2000 problem as huge, difficult, dangerous,
>and unique. There are doom-laden articles in the newspapers, expensive
>conferences, collections of articles such as the one you hold, service
>offerings by consulting groups, special software tools, internet news
>pages. This is the Year 2000 racket -- the problem is free, but>>
>
>*** Look, darn it, I run a computer consulting "thing" and we are making big
>money by going out and spending mucho hours "fixing" computers to have the
>ability to see year 2000 dates.  While in most cases it is actually not all
>that difficult to get things going right, we need all the hysteria possible
>to hoodwink these ceos and business owners into thinking that without paying
>us huge amounts of money they are going to be in deep gooky.  So quit with
>all this truth stuff, you'll muck up my good-thing-going, ok?  Yada yada
>yada.
>
>Michael Smith
>MSMITH6791@AOL.COM
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