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Y2K Bug

Terry Yager wrote:

Gee guys, it's been 7 years. How long does Michigan need to fix this thing? Here's what happens when you select October 2007:

No wonder our tourism industry is dying, nobody can find us without a time machine!

I got this Hamtrack thing which starts as:

"Hamtramck grew into a Polish enclave between 1910 and 1920"

Is that what you're referring to? It doesn't seem to be a mistake to have something which started between 1910 and 1920, though perhaps I'm missing something here.
 
Terry Yager said:
Gee guys, it's been 7 years. How long does Michigan need to fix this thing? Here's what happens when you select October 2007...
Click to expand...

I had some amusement from our (modern) voicemail system recently (that of course didn't track right for the last DST change) asking for the year as two digits...

Entered 0, 7...

Voice prompts back: "One, Seven"...

But still set it correctly as 2007...
 
I suppose that voicemail system will be outdated in 10 years, so except for experimenting you will never get to see how it handles 2017.
 
Pretty sure Terry was talking about the generated URL ... 107...

I still love the Windows 3.1 bug date 3/11/:7 (like in Winfile).
 
Yah, I was trying to find the date of the Hamtramck Festival, one of the best parties in Michigan, and the search took me back to 1907, and said it couldn't find anything interesting happening on that date...go figger.

--T
 
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