¢ 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=¢¢¢
