From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/1318 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaughan Pratt Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: A couple of Y2K glitches Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 15:17:17 -0800 Message-ID: <200001012317.PAA16954@coraki.Stanford.EDU> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241017747 30701 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:09:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:09:07 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Sun Jan 2 11:19:50 2000 -0400 Original-Received: (from Majordom@localhost) by mailserv.mta.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA10222 for categories-list; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 10:16:16 -0400 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: mailserv.mta.ca: Majordom set sender to cat-dist@mta.ca using -f In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jan 0100 11:37:15 GMT." Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Original-Lines: 14 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:1318 Archived-At: For a short while in the wee small hours of this morning, the US Naval Observatory was reporting the year as 19100. This is exactly 19 millennia after Peter Johnstone's distinctly post-Boadicean message on continued fractions, whose dateline reads Date: Sat, 1 Jan 100 11:37:15 +0000 (GMT) Granted the point of Y2K compliance was to avoid rolling back to the year 1900 by carrying a 1 into the hundreds position, but in hindsight that can be taken in various ways. Vaughan