>BTW, You may have noticed how extraordinarily hard it is to explain the "bug" to lay people. I can't even explain what I do for a living to my relatives and friends.

Actually the 6-digit computer date problem is not specific to 2000AD. It would happen any change of century. It's the rollover from "99" to "00" that is the killer. If Babbage had been successful we might have found ourselves with a YMCM problem instead of a YMM (aka Y2K) problem. :-)

But try explaining that Y2K is not some modern version of a chapter from the Book of Revelation to the average person....

My real complaint with the milleniallists is they're so ^*(^&%ing provincial. They have the audacity to try to impose their minority religious beliefs on the whole world. It's not even the only calendar in use. Both Islam and Judaism have different calendars. I vote for a new non-religious calendar to be adopted which will start at year 0 and include 25 international compulsory holidays, a 4 day work week and no Friday 13ths.

Jen
Chronologially challenged with PMS.

Give me *all* the chocolate and back away slowly...