Does it matter if the Handset is Y2K compliant when the public network
that it interfaces to falls appart?

Lets see,,, I have this nice Y2K compliant pencil and eraser,,,
Y2K micro-wave popcorn (No joke!  ACT II 2000 popcorn!
"The popcorn of the new millenium")...

I think, though, that the Y2K issues will be a little more serious
than "oat bran" was.  *Sigh*

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:42:39 -0400, Martin Green wrote:

>     Hey Bill, this morning I got to work to find a sticker on my phone
>     from the IS department at Consumers Gas here in Toronto, stating that
>     my phone has been certified as Y2K audited. Now I can see this being
>     relevant for the people here witht the LCD display on their phones
>     that displays the time and date, but mine is little more than a
>     handest and a box with buttons.
>
>     Kind of reminds me of a few years ago, with all the food manufacturers
>     using vegetable oils scrambling to inform the public that their
>     product is now "cholesterol free!", when only products made with
>     animal fats have cholesterol in the first place.
>
>
>     CIAO - Martin.
>
>
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>Subject: Re: There is a problem with the date ???.
>Author:  pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> at
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>Date:    6/22/98 2:56 PM
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>     <SNIP>
>
>I mostly see the silly side of this: "is your router with no senses of date
>to start with certified to be year-2000 compatible"?, I talked with a
>financial planner the other day, and he had a significant worry that there
>would be financial crises related to the "year 2000 problem". (~30%, I
>think.)  I think "Crisis" in this context means anything that will spook the
>stock market, as opposed to "real" crises...
>
>BillW
>