›              o=o=o=o=o=››             Humor Corner›› This little ditty comes to us via the› February 1999 issue of (FR)ANTIC, the› newsletter of the  Alamo  Area  Atari› User Association.››         Two Digits For A Date›› (The Y2K problem, set to the tune of› Gilligan's Island)›› Just sit right back and you'll hear a›      tale› Of the doom that is our fate.› That started when programmers used› Two digits for a date.› Two digits for a date.›› Main memory was smaller then;› Hard disks were smaller, too.› "Four digits are extravagant,› So let's get by with two.› So let's get by with two."›› "This works through 1999,"› The programmers did say.› "Unless we rewrite before that› It will all go away.› It will all go away."›› But management had not a clue;› "It works fine now, you bet!› A rewrite is a straight expense;› We won't do it just yet.› We won't do it just yet."›› Now when 2000 rolls around› It all goes straight to h___,› For zero's less than ninety-nine,› As anyone can tell.› As anyone can tell.›› The mail  won't  bring  your  pension›      check› It won't be sent to you› When you're no longer sixty-eight,› But minus thirty-two.› But minus thirty-two.›› The problems we're about to face› Are frightening, for sure.› And reading every line of code's› The only certain cure.› The only certain cure.››       (Key change; big finish)›› There's not much time,› There's too much code.› (And Cobol-coders, few)› When the century is finished with,› We may be finished too.› We may be finished too.›› Eight thousand years from now I hope› That things weren't left too late.› And people are lamenting› Four digits for a date.› Four digits for a date.››              o=o=o=o=o=›››