...this was done to a computer monitoring an Iraqi oil pipeline. Was it really that simple to avoid y2k? Can they just keep resetting dates?

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), December 31, 1999

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Ut oh....

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999.

Maybe that's why they call it TURKEY!!

-- mikey (mikeymac@uswest.net), December 31, 1999.

First off, they should have set it to 1972 (same days, same dates, leap year). What happens on Feb 29th?

Changing the year is fine unless they want to talk to another system.

Oops,

-- Servant (_@_._), December 31, 1999.