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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 21:05:54 EST
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What is really amusing about all of this is that if people didn't insist on
putting specific checks in their code for the last year of each century not
being a leap year, everything would have been OK.  It is doubtful that most
simple utilities care about dates before 1901 or after 2099.

-Ron