>> Message from: Rome
>> >> January 18, 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 guys 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.
>> >>
>> >> Plutonius.
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