From: (Hans Derycke)
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [comp.software.year-2000] Year 2000 urgency not needed?
Date: 3 Jun 1997 09:32:00 -0700

Subject: Re: Year 2000 urgency not needed? 
From: wbblakemore@pobox.com (William B. Blakemore)
Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000, alt.folklore.urban, alt.religion.kibology

Friar Tuck <ftuck@flatland.dimensional.com> wrote:

>I'm working on year 2000 program corrections, and I just thought 
>of a troublesome question.
>
>*Technically* speaking, the 3rd millenium does not start until 
>January 1, 2001.  The last year of the 20th century is 2000, not 
>1999.
>
>Doesn't that mean we have an extra year to fix this?  Maybe we 
>don't need to hurry quite so much.

Someone left the door open and let a manager in by mistake ...