Re: 20-Dec-99 EMC

["Ian W. Wright" <ian-at-iw63.demon.co.uk>]

Jon Elson wrote:
Hi,

> It worked about 3 or 4 days ago.  Hmm, maybe they aren't Y2K ready!

You could be right, if the Naval Observatory which supplies the US time
standards couldn't get it right, what chance have other government
organisations - the Observatory web page gave the new date as
01/01/19100 until someone spotted it and corrected things!

Ian
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