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[email protected] · January 5th 16, 01:16 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article id,
lid (Dr J R Stockton) wrote:

In uk.transport.london message , Sat, 2
Jan 2016 16:58:52, Richard J. posted:

You mean there was a very similar incident 16 years ago? But what is
special about 1/1/2016 compared to 1/1/2015, 1/1/2014, etc?

It is the first year 20xx for which xx cannot be stored in four bits.

If memory space was limited in a system designed a decade ago, someone
might have chosen to use just four bits for the variable part of the
year, thinking "Well, I'll not be in this job in 2016, ha ha!".

I think they'd learned that lesson before the millennium.

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Colin Rosenstiel