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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Y2K comes early (was Re: ada c c ++ software engineer)
Date: 1998/09/22
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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.
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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