[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <paul.nospam-AE56D0.16322118112009 at pbook.sture.ch>,
	Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article <7mia17F3i6h8eU1 at mid.individual.net>,
>  billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> 
>> In article <007f2bc1$0$26892$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
>> 	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> > Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> > 
>> >> I had to point out that most modern conveniences; e.g. elevators don't 
>> >> really care what year it is.  They just went on working.
>> > 
>> > Actually, elevators do care about the date and time. They are programmed
>> > to behave differently depending on day/time of week in large buildings.
>> > 
>> > They have different behaviour depending on time of day, cater to
>> > cleaning crews at night and on weekends etc.
>> 
>> Time of day and day of week, maybe.  But year?  I doubt it.
> 
> I had a VCR which refused to do timed recordings after Y2K. The first 
> one I had had no concept of the day of week so would presumably have 
> been OK.

Yet another totally unneccessary item that had a problem.  It was supposed
to be the end of the world and life as we knew it, not just a few missed
Lost episodes.

Nothing that I used in everyday life either at home or at work had any
problem at all when the calendar turned over.  I expect that was the
case for 99% of the worlds population.

bill
 

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