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To: long-gone who wrote (26547)1/20/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Zardoz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116762
 
>Greenspan in answer to question:
>"There will be Y2K problems we can not now forsee".

From Rockter {1 BC}: Now Reuters.

Message from: Rome
January 18, 1 B.C.

Dear Cassius,

Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change
from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't
much time left. I don't know how people will cope with working
the wrong way around. Having been working happily downwards
forever, now we have to start thinking upwards. You would
think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not
left it to us to sort out at the last minute.

I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius
hadn't done something about it when he was sorting out the
calendar. He said he could see why Brutus turned nasty.

We called in the consulting astrologers, but they simply said
that continuing downwards using minus BC won't work. As usual,
the consultants charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.

As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing
upwards.

We have heard that there are 3 wise guys in the east working on
the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's all
over. Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of
transition. Anyway we are continuing to work on this blasted
Y zero K problem and I will send you a parchment if anything
further develops.

Plutonius.

The Rome Empire Survived?