[90032] in Cypherpunks
Re: Y2K: Canada status?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Nov 14 14:57:17 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:03:36 -0800
To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>,
"cypherpunks@algebra.com" <cypherpunks@algebra.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711120328.WAA14485@cti06.citenet.net>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 07:22 PM 11/11/1997 -0500, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>Please reply to my personnal address, I am not on CPunks.
>
>Is there anybody who knows about the Y2K situation in Canada?
Canada is expected to remain relatively intact until 2000 :-)
Some computers may become upset on April Fools, 1999,
when the Northwest Territories splits into Nunavut and Bob*,
either because they can't accommodate the extra slack,
or because they think a large fraction of the inhabitants moved,
or because they use numbers or a small set of abbreviations
to indicate provinces and weren't designed for that to change...
[* Some residents prefer to retain the old name of Northwest Territories,
but they'll eventually lose....]
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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