Re: Question: How will the Year 2000 bug impact your work?

Posted in 1997

Robert Kersting — Wed, 14 May 1997 22:12:54 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Alicia Carla Longstreet <carla@ici.net> wrote: >I would like to elicit a promise from every programmer in the U.S. >Please, please refuse to help update the IRS computers. That way when >the millenium comes the IRS computers will all think that they are back >in the year 1900. >Guess What!!! There wasn't an income tax in the U.S then. We wouldn't >have to worry about the IRS until 2024. Just think no federal income >taxes until 2024. >Alicia Carla Longstreet >P.S. I know that this does not technically come under the heading of any >of the newsgroups I am sending it to. OK. Great idea. I promise. <g>