22 Oct
1998
22 Oct
'98
10:46 a.m.
Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)freegate.com> wrote:
On 22 Oct 1998, Eric Smith wrote:
Now I'm
going to be ill. Look out world, here comes "Millenium Savings
Time." Yes boys and girls, at midnight on December 31st 1999 we are all
going to turn back our calenders to 1990 and the date will officially be 1,
Jan, 1990 _again_. This will give the world another 10 years to fix their
problems and then on December 31st 1999 (MST) we turn the calendar
_forward_ 10 years.
Actually it should be 28 years rather than 10, so that
the day of the week
and leap year cycle remain correct. That will give us plenty of time to
fix the problem. Of course, then no one will work on the problem for another
26 years.
Lots of people will be unhappy when they suddenly find themselves below the
legal ages for voting, driving, drinking, etc.
Ohmigod! We would keep going back over and over and over to 1972?!?
(Like "Ground Hog Day") How many times would we need to repeat those 28
years before we get it right?
THIS time I'll take that job offer in Albuquerque, not get involved with
what's-her-name, release XenoCopy with Phillipe Kahn instead of Vertex,
keep the Honda S-800, . . .
I think that I'd still prefer to do the sixties instead. Even without
microcomputers they were a lot more fun.
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