105-year-old offered space in Norway kindergarten

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105-year-old offered space in Norway kindergarten

02/04/00

OSLO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A 105-year-old woman was offered a place in a Norwegian kindergarten after a millennium bug knocked a century off her age.

``When our list showed she was born in '94' we just assumed it was 1994 rather than 1894,'' Olga Moerk, in charge of a project offering free day-care to five-year-olds in central Oslo, told Reuters on Friday.

The glitch stemmed from a computer print-out from the citizens' register giving only the last two years of the birth date. A social worker visited the old people's home where the woman lives after getting no reply to the free playschool offer.

``Most people jump at the offer. We thought the girl we were looking for might have been the daughter of an employee at the home,'' Moerk said.

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