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Default Harbor Freight Reviews (Y2K computer code)

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:27:21 -0700, Oren wrote:

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:26:25 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

As I remember, the major concern was subtracting dates. For example,
if an item was purchased in 1999, and returned to the store in 2000.
Lets see..... 99 minus 00.

Were there other things that were going to fail?


The nervous types thought that the Social Security Administration
would begin printing checks again, for folks that were already dead.


There was a 106 year-old woman who got a summoned for truancy. ...not exactly
Y2K, but the same principle.