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Re: Y10K [message #17215]

Tue, 21 September 1999 00:00

Ray Sterner
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Registered: December 1997

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"Richard G. French" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Thanks, Ray!
          But am I the only astronomer
around who is worried about our
 shortsighted failure to plan for the Y10K problem?
 Dick French
  </blockquote>
  My routine will handle that.  It doesn't break until Y32K. 
I would have taken care of
   that but figured future programmers will need another crises
to deal with so they can
   ask for a raise.  Just sprinkle a few Ls in the code and
use LONG instead of FIX and you
   should be good for a couple billion years.
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  Applied Physics Laboratory      West longitude 76.90 degrees.
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