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Article #354Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
From: Norman Diamond
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1985 21:31
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1985 21:31
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> > I have a friend that raised an interesting question that I immediately
> > tried to prove wrong. He is a programmer and has this notion that when we
> > reach the year 2000, computers will not accept the new date. Will the
> > computers assume that it is 1900, or will it even cause a problem?
> > ...
> > Spencer L. Bolles
>
> The problem won't be the computers, but the software. Some software is
> bound to be wrong, only considering the last two digits of the year.
> but the problem won't come up until 2100.
> ...
> Gary Levin / Dept of CS / U of AZ / Tucson, AZ 85721 / (602) 621-4231
Leap years are not the only problem, and some software already is wrong.
There was some 105-year-old lady who hadn't registered for school, and
the truant officers came after her. I think this happened in the
U.S. midwest, around 8 years ago.
-- Norman Diamond
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.flame,net.puzzle Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000 Message-ID: <6876@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 16:31:10 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6876 Posted: Tue Jan 22 16:31:10 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 05:12:55 EST References: <820@reed.UUCP> <20381@arizona.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25