> WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP SOLVE THE YEAR 2K PROBLEM?
> >- Sung to the tune of "Gilligan's Island":
> >
> >Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
> >Of the doom that is our fate,
> >That started when programmers used
> >Two digits for a date,
> >Two digits for a date.
> >
> >Main memory was smaller then;
> >Hard disks were smaller, too.
> >"Four digits are extravagant,
> >So let's get by with two,
> >So let's get by with two."
> >
> >"This works through 1999,"
> >The programmers did say.
> >"Unless we rewrite before that
> >It all will go away,
> >It all will go away."
> >
> >But management had not a clue:
> >"It works fine now, you bet!
> >A rewrite is a straight expense;
> >We won't do it just yet,
> >We won't do it just yet."
> >
> >Now when two thousand rolls around
> >It all goes straight to hell,
> >For zero's less than ninety-nine,
> >As anyone can tell,
> >As anyone can tell.
> >
> >The mail won't bring your pension check.
> >It won't be sent to you
> >When you're no longer sixty-eight,
> >But minus thirty-two,
> >But minus thirty-two.
> >
> >The problems we're about to face
> >Are frightening, for sure.
> >And reading every line of code's
> >The only certain cure,
> >The only certain cure.
> >
> >There's not much time, there's too much code,
> >(And COBOL-coders, few).
> >When the century is finished with,
> >We may be finished, too,
> >We may be finished, too.
> >
> >The way to get the time we need
> >I now propose to you:
> >A Daylight Savings decade,
> >Or maybe even two,
> >Or maybe even two.
> >
> >Eight thousand years from now I hope
> >That things weren't left too late,
> >And people aren't lamenting
> >Four digits for a date,
> >Four digits for a date!