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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: telephone bill bug
Message-ID: <386@sii.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-May-85 18:17:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 18:17:16 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 7-May-85 02:14:24 EDT
Organization: Software Innovations, Nashua NH
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Howdy

Recently, I received an AT&T bill that had the following sort of
entries in it:

No.   -Date-    -Time-    --Number--    Code   -Min-   -Amount-
 10.  Mar 12    1159PM    617 xxx-xxxx   ND       1        .18
 11.  Mar 13    1200AM    617 yyy-yyyy   NDM
                CONVERSATION MINUTES     1443           253.10
 12.  Mar 13    1210AM    616 zzz-zzzz   ND       6        .70

Notice that #11, which occured between 12:00 and 12:10 on the same
day, lasted for 1443 minutes, which is about 1440 minutes (24 hours)
longer than the actual time spent (I'm glad i had an extra call
at 12:10, otherwise i couldn't prove it!).  I wonder whether some
statistics-gathering program is reading more than one changable
register (i.e., date and time) without ensuring that the values are
consistent.  I thought that somebody out there might find this
amusing, maybe even relevant.

						mm