Computer Jokes

Y Zero K

Message from: Rome
October 3, 1 B.C.

Dear Cassius,

Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change
from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't
much time left.

I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way
around. Having been working happily downwards forever, now
we have to start thinking upwards.

You would think that someone would have thought of it
earlier and not left it to us to sort out at the last
minute.

I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that
Julius hadn't done something about it when he was sorting out
the calendar. He said he could see
why Brutus turned nasty. We called in the consulting
astrologers, but they simply said that continuing downwards
using minus BC won't work. As usual, the consultants charged
a fortune for doing nothing useful.

As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass
flowing upwards.

We have heard that there are 3 wise men in the east working
on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's
all over. Some say the world will
cease to exist at the moment of transition.

Anyway, we are continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K
problem and I will send you a parchment if anything further
develops. I must end this message short because I have
suffered from a terrible case of enscriber's syndrome ever
since you sent us the new
high-speed rewriteable tablets.

Best Regards,
Plutonius