From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Y2K comes early (was Re: ada c c ++ software engineer)
Date: 1998/09/22
Date: 1998-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.98Sep22155904@spectre.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6ttm05$kf0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <6ttm05$kf0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
> Interesting! Quite true that this idiom was common. This
> would imply a mini-Y2K type panic less than a year from now,
> which perhaps will be effective as a kind of early-warning
> gauge for how well people have fixed up their software :-)
And it will follow by a few days the August 22, 1999 GPS clock
rollover, so there will be two "wake-up calls" in three weeks.
Unfortunately, the remaining time may be too short to fix things.
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Robert I. Eachus
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-16 0:00 ada c c ++ software engineer shoba
1998-09-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-09-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr
1998-09-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-09-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-18 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Y2K comes early (was Re: ada c c ++ software engineer) Robert S. White
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