I ran across this statement in the Orlando Sentinel dated Jan 5th.

The fix: rolling the date on the computer to Jan. 1, 1999.

"We fooled the software, basically," said Dick Hamann, SCC director of computing and telecommunications service

Maybe this was a common practice? Any comments from the experts out there.

Martin

-- Martin Thompson (Martin@aol.com), January 13, 2000

Answers

2/29/99?

-- justwondering (justwondering@giveitabreak.com), January 13, 2000.

Martin:

Assuming this turning the clock back is purely a temporaty thing until they have an upgrade there shouldn't be a problem. If the date is important, things aren't going to work on Feb 29 since there wasn't a Feb 29 in 1999.

Jim

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), January 13, 2000.

Oh nooooooooooooooooo! I am Scared! ;p

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 13, 2000.