>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. :-)

Actually it's the industry of magnetic media that is to blame. If the memory space had not been that expensive (both disks and RAM), we'd never have to write the dates shortened. But, we were all brought up being cheap on disk space. It took me quite long to heal myself from trying to save space. Once I calculated that my ten hours to save the user one meg a year is actually costing ten megs... I simply gave up. I'll make it shorter for speed's sake, and not for disk consumption's sake.

>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.

We'd have to invent Kelvin year, with some absolute zero (arbitrary if necessary). Many people don't understand negative numbers, anyway :)