From: Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 19:11:55 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
> Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> > I'm planning to renumber the years, after my coup, from the agricultural
> > revolution (call it 8000 BC), to get rid of all those poor people living
> > backwards: e.g. Plato/Platon, b. 428, d. 348.
>
> So we are approaching the year 10,000? Wow, not just a millennial
> celebration then! :-)
>
Yes, but now the Y2K problem becomes a Y10K problem, and we have to
shift from 4-digit year fields to 5-digit year fields.
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