Re: Old Time Y2K Problem

[Lamont Cranston <mulligan@xxxxxxxx>]

Message from: Rome
     January 18, 1 B.C.
     
     Dear Cassius,
     
     Are you still working on the Y zero K problem?  This change from BC
to 
     AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left.  
     
     I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way
around. 
     Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start 
     thinking upwards.  You would think that someone would have thought
of 
     it earlier and not left it to us to sort out at the last minute.
     
     I spoke to Caesar the other evening.  He was livid that Julius
hadn't 
     done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar.  He
said 
     he could see why Brutus turned nasty.  We called in the consulting 
     astrologers, but they simply said that continuing downwards using 
     minus BC won't work.  As usual, the consultants charged a fortune
for 
     doing nothing useful.
     
     As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing 
     upwards.
     
     We have heard that there are 3 wise guys in the east working on the 
     problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's all over. 
Some 
     say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition. 
Anyway 
     we are continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem and I
will 
     send you a parchment if anything further develops.
     
     Plutonius