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To: kvogel who wrote (1404)	6/27/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: Big Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1960

Found this on AOL: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP SOLVE THE Y2K PROBLEM? Sung to the tune of "Gilligan's Island": "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale Of the doom that is our fate, That started when programmers used Two digits for a date, Two digits for a date." "Main memory was smaller then; Hard disks were smaller, too. "Four digits are extravagant, So let's get by with two, So let's get by with two." "This works through 1999," The programmers did say. "Unless we rewrite before that It all will go away, It all will go away." "But management had not a clue: "It works fine now, you bet! A rewrite is a straight expense; We won't do it just yet, We won't do it just yet." "The mail won't bring your pension check. It won't be sent to you When you're no longer sixty-eight, But minus thirty-two, But minus thirty-two." "The problems we're about to face Are frightening, for sure. And reading every line of code's The only certain cure, The only certain cure." "There's not much time, there's too much code, (And COBOL-coders, few). When the century is finished with, We may be finished, too, We may be finished, too." "The way to get the time we need I now propose to you: A Daylight Savings decade, Or maybe even two, Or maybe even two." "Eight thousand years from now I hope That things weren't left too late, And people aren't lamenting Four digits for a date, Four digits for a date!"