How did the world's leaders react when the very first millennium bug reared
its head? (Translated from a Roman scroll)
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 everything out at this last minute.
I spoke to
Pilate the other evening, and 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 Consultus, but he just said that continuing
downwards using minus BC won't work. As usual he charged us a fortune for
doing nothing useful. Surely we will not have to throw out all our hardware
and start again?
Macrohard will make yet another fortune out of this,
I suppose.The moneylenders are paranoid, of course! They have been told that
all usury rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take
out loans. It's an ill wind...As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an
hourglass flowing upwards.
We have heard that there are three wise men
in the East who have been working on the problem, but unfortunately they
won't arrive until it'sall over.I have also heard that there are plans to
stable all horses at midnight at the turn of the year, as there are fears
that they will stop and try to run backwards, causing immense damage to
chariots and possibly loss of life. Some say the world will cease to exist at
the moment of transition.
Anyway, we
are still continuing to work on this blasted Y zero Kproblem. I will
stick-mail a parchment to you if anything further develops. If you have any
ideas please let me know.
Plutonius
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