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Re: Y2K and U.S. Government Information Officers
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Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>
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Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:23:13 -0500
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>Alfredo posts part of an article from Reuters at
>   <http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C15779%2C00.html?nd>
>
>        PITTSBURGH -- Trying to prevent massive computer
>        problems when the year 2000 arrives, government
>        information officers yesterday adopted a new standard
>        for representing the year in computer systems.
>[snip]


>I wonder (1) how long it took them to come up with this standard,
>and (2) what other options were considered.


Being in PA (Beautiful SE PA, to be exact :-), I got to read this in the
newspaper.  It seems it was a weeklong conference and other options that
were considered would be too ludicrous to even post here - I'd have to add
the "HUMOR:" tag to the subject line.

Joe

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