Bruce,

> Most Y2K conversions will include re-engineering to allow more
> flexibility in the future, so that changes to the SSN, phone number
> format, Dow Jones range and so on require a couple of
> twiddles in a table
> somewhere, plus some report prettification.

(choose this if the above was said in jest)

... and there IS a Santa Claus, right?  <hehehe>

(choose this is the above was said in all seriousness)

If only it were true, however I no more believe that this will occur on a
large scale than having a man land on the moon again anytime soon.
Insightful people will do things like this, but most people won't.  I could
be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet that the only focus is Y2K and nothing
else.

Oh well...

Joe