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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8548)	9/7/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8548)	9/7/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Cheeky - They HYPE about the GPS, Sept 9/99, and Y too kay is CRAZY. Absolutely no arguement on that issue. But the volume of hype (my gym has just sent me a "get you body into Y2K ready shape..." flyer!!) does not mean that the software problem isn't real. And it all depends on what you mean (I've not seen any definition) of what you mean by Y too Kay. To me (since I coined the acronymn, Y2K means the practice of using two digit years to store & process the year portion of date fields. So unless one has been very diligent (i.e. using a windowing scheme), something will have to give, because there is no two digit number that comes after 99. I agree that crossing the 1/1/00 line will be mostly a non-event...in many cases simply because lots of stuff will have been turned off, just to be safe. While the GPS issue clearly did not cause any visible failures, I have two friends with a marine & a handheld GPS unit that went south...nothing fatal, but just one more electronic toy to futz with. Can you accept that the mathematical problem that there is no two digit number greater than 99 could just possibly cause problems? And do remember that dates are not just used as dates...they're used in part numbers, invoice numbers, hash keys, sort keys, uniquifiers...lots of places. - David