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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Jun 2007
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OT : Save Windows XP
Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:46:11 -0500, wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:13:41 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:
I am one of the people who predicted Y2K was simply a scam to sell
hardware and software. Anyone with a basic understnding of the problem
should be able to deal with it. For most systems it was really a one
minute event.
I was one who predicted in 1980 that Y2K would be a big problem, but I
would be out of that business by then.
It was, and I wasn't.
What was the big problem?
Two byte year of birth, two byte year of policy inception, two byte
year of renewal date, blah, blah, blah.
One byte year, two bytes month and two bytes year. Solution go through
code and make 0 greater than 1. Oh, wait a minute were are talking Y2K,
not 1979 to 1980.
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