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Re: Happy New Year!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 1 Jan 2000 07:42:47 GMT
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Bram Lambrecht wrote:
You too!  My 66 MHz 486 which I use for email thought it was Jan 4 1980
for a little while, but that was easy to fix :)  And my JUNO mailer is
listing the date for messages I've gotten today as 1/1/100.  Amusing, but
no big deal!  At least the messages will sort correctly...
--Bram

LOL!  That's as funny as the national time webpage saying the date is
"1/1/19100"  :)  They fixed it, of course.  I'm sure our 486 will think
it's 1980 (if it even has the right date, it's really bad with that)...
but if I tell it the date is 2000 it's happy.  :)
--
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jmbrown@mines.edu
http://www.pcisys.net/~jmbrown/



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(...) You too! My 66 MHz 486 which I use for email thought it was Jan 4 1980 for a little while, but that was easy to fix :) And my JUNO mailer is listing the date for messages I've gotten today as 1/1/100. Amusing, but no big deal! At least the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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