Bill's Y2K Repair

From bcr@sanskrit.lz.nowhere.com Wed Jul  1 14:30:11 1998
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 14:30:09 -0400
From: Bill C Rrrrrrs <bcr@sanskrit.lz.nowhere.com>
Organization: Some Labs
To: Gilbert Healton <ghealton@sanskrit.lz.nowhere.com>
Subject: Re: Avoiding A Very Popular Y2K Error

My favorite:

year = ((year - 1967)%100)+1967

1967 of course, because nothing existed before I was born, and few people live to be 100, so I'm unlikely to live long enough to see this break.

Bill

Correction

Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 14:56:32 -0400
From: Bill C Rrrrrrs <bcr@sanskrit.lz.nowhere.com>
Organization: Some Labs
To: Gilbert Healton <ghealton@sanskrit.lz.nowhere.com>
Subject: Re: Avoiding A Very Popular Y2K Error

If you are going to put this on the Y2K site, be sure to have the correct version I really use nearby:

year = ((year+33)%100)+1967

Otherwise, MAC users will come to hunt me down 67 years too soon.

Bill