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Re: 9/9/99

  • Subject: Re: 9/9/99
  • From: "Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:13:16 -0500
 
> Do you really mean 09/09/99?  I have never seen any place use 09/09/99 as
a
> special value.  On the other hand, I have seen lots of 99/99/99 and
00/00/00
> used for special purposes...  Some Y2K folks have been warning about this,
> but I suspect it to be an urban legend.
>

Me, too.

Or maybe this is just the hangover from the nagging old problem of single
digit months and days!
Businesses with this problem can only be open the first 9 days of the first
9 months of the year.

rp

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