Well, for years I knew that the new century starts at midnight of
December 31 of 2000, and that the year 2000 is the last year of this
millennium, since the years (DC) started in "1" as "THE FIRST YEAR", the
"Second" and so on, so never existed an year zero.

Starting counting in "one" for the first year makes 100th years later =
year number 100, two thousand years later = year 2000.  The main idea is
that the transaction between AC and DC was from 001 AC to 001 DC at the
next year, thus never existing the year "zero".  Well, now to the
point.  I went to the US Postal Office and saw a nice timer at the wall,
digits are 5 or 6" tall, it is counting backwards days, hours, minutes,
seconds, and tenths of seconds to the new millennium, I saw that timer
several times during the last months, but today it caught my
attention... the day backward counting is somewhere around 196 days...
or I was hallucinating when saw it, or they are completely wrong.

The most recent discovery about the *Y2K Bug*;  It is not all battery
operated screw drivers that are Y2K compliant. Just in case keep a set
of manually operated ones... the notice say that the "Sears Craftsman"
manual ones are the most Y2K compliant...

Another one say that if you are reading this text, the *Y2K Bug* will
make you die during the next millennium, "for sure", no way you can
escape, you will.

:)

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Wagner Lipnharski - UST Research Inc. - Orlando, Florida
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