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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (149)	11/30/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) of 198

Computerworld -- Y2K glitch calls Philadelphia jurors for duty 100 years ago computerworld.com News, 11/29/99 04:31 PM) [What a laugher] (Online News, 11/29/99 04:31 PM) Y2K glitch in electronic form results in calls to Philadelphia jurors for duty 100 years ago By Sami Lais A call to a programming library that was not Y2K-ready was the culprit in a court mailing that ordered about 500 Philadelphians to report for jury duty Jan. 3, 1900, said a city official. [...] we developed and implemented a new form, using fully Y2K-compliant software," McAllister said. "But sometime after the end of testing in May, one of the programmers made a change in format using a library that he didn't notice was not Y2K-compliant." [...] This coming weekend, we're going to turn the clock ahead to Jan. 1 and run checks on all of them again," McAllister said. [...]

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