Let me whisk you all back 2000 odd years
lets take a peek into a Roman officer's intray
we might well have read something like
THIS
Imperial Palace, 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 Emperor Augustus 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.
Regards,
Plutonius
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 Emperor Augustus 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.
Regards,
Plutonius
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