[26325] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Silly season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Wolfe)
Thu Dec 23 17:39:08 1999
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:37:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>
To: Steve Dispensa <steve@mwis.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Steve Dispensa wrote:
>
> I don't know how big of a deal is being made about 2.038K on a corporate
> management level, but it would seem that the ensuing months would be just
> about a perfect time to address this issue. After all, many companies have
> teams for the date-field issue right now, and we've gotten pretty good in
> the past couple of years at analyzing this problem. It would only make
> sense to immediately move on to the 2038 work after Y2K settles down. Let's
> just not wait until 2035 to deal with it this time, huh?
>
> - Steve
Do you honestly believe that corporate *name your country* will spend the
money NOW to fix a problem that won't affect them for 30+ years? One of us
is living in a fantasy world....
-- Tim
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