From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f948976d12c7ee33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-29 13:22:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030611 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner References: <3EFC6FC2.B96DAEA4@adaworks.com> <1056731513.272294@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:22:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.196.85 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1056918129 162.84.196.85 (Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:22:09 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:22:09 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39902 Date: 2003-06-29T20:22:09+00:00 List-Id: Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > I simply *know* why those 2-digit year representation was right thing Yes, the problem wasn't just that two-digit years were used, it's that no one remembered *where* they were used when the time came to worry about them. In the Ariane 5 case, they didn't even realize that there was something to worry about.