[26490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UK GMT roll over
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Carter)
Sat Jan 1 15:55:53 2000
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 13:54:13 -0700
From: Steve Carter <scarter@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
Cc: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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Andrew Brown wrote:
>
> >Isn't it interesting to note that there have been no significant y2k
> >problems but there have been significant service disruptions as a
> >result of paranoia and general cynisism?
>
> chalk one up for mass stupidity. people are generally, en masse, much
> more dense than their individual counterparts. like cows (or
> lemmings?)...they stampeded on command.
Mass stupidity? Tell me you didn't sigh just a little when all your
clocks had rolled over. It's easy now to be complacent and act cool about
the whole thing, but no-one can actually say what might have been.
-Steve
