California Smog Machine Date Error

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From a friend who's reliable...Charley Sweet

Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 20:10:02 -0800 From: Charley Sweet Reply-To: csweet@jps.net Organization: KnoSys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01a (Macintosh; I; PPC) Subject: real bug

Had my first real, direct run-in with a y2k bug this afternoon when I went to see my auto mechanic about a smog check. He was waving his arms and ranting when I came in the door. Turned out all the dozen or so checks he had already done today were rejected by the DMV because the date that his computer automatically generated for them was Jan. 4, 2010 -- and he couldn't change it!

-- Sheri Nakken (wncy2k@nccn.net), January 05, 2000


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