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To: gmccon who wrote (22356)	10/27/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116958

You see its the simple stuff that nobody ever thought of that will probably do it. My secretary thought of it. She wants to know if she can get a royalty. Any way so what of the computer gets the date wrong? On my pc I just type date in, look at the calendar and type it in. The time is never right but I have a timex. On the big computers it doesn't matter either. The computer is too dumb to realize that there is an 1901 and a 2001, it just subtracts right? So 00-99= -99. Times 27.50 per month equals $-32,670.00 Now anybody knows who gets a bill or a payment for -32,670.00 dollars on their phone bill will know its an error won't they? I guess what will happen is the computer will realize that a negative balance means they owe the customer money and remit a cheque. Who is gonna tell? Business as usual as far as I am concerned. I thought about that September the 09th 1999 it will come out 09/09/99. So what. I have heard it could be called an error condition. So its only one day and I think everyone is entitled to one bad day. EC<:-}