Fwd: HUMOR: Two Digits for a Date

[Ted Timmons <tedhumor@abcompsvc.com>]

I don't know the attrib on this, if I could sing I'd sing it.

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>Subject: FW: Two Digits for a Date
>Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:50:00 -0500
>
>   Two Digits for a Date
>    (to the tune of "Gilligan's Island")
>
>     Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
>     Of the doom that is our fate.
>     That started when programmers used
>     Two digits for a date.
>     Two digits for a date.
>
>     Main memory was smaller then;
>     Hard disks were smaller, too.
>     "Four digits are extravagant,
>     So let's get by with two.
>     So let's get by with two."
>
>     "This works through 1999,"
>     The programmers did say.
>     "Unless we rewrite before that
>     It all will go away.
>     It all will go away."
>
>     But Management had not a clue:
>     "It works fine now, you bet!
>     A rewrite is a straight expense;
>     We won't do it just yet.
>     We won't do it just yet."
>
>     Now when 2000 rolls around
>     It all goes straight to hell,
>     For zero's less than ninety-nine,
>     As anyone can tell.
>     As anyone can tell.
>
>     The mail won't bring your pension check.
>     It won't be sent to you
>     When you're no longer sixty-eight,
>     But minus thirty-two.
>     But minus thirty-two.
>
>     The problems we're about to face
>     Are frightening, for sure.
>     And reading every line of code's
>     The only certain cure.
>     The only certain cure.
>
>     [key change, big finish]
>     There's not much time,
>     There's too much code.
>     (And Cobol-coders, few)
>     When the century is finished with,
>     We may be finished, too.
>     We may be finished, too.
>
>     Eight thousand years from now I hope
>     That things weren't left too late,
>     And people aren't then lamenting
>     Four digits for a date.
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