Y0K definition?

[Jonathan Fletcher]

On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 03:00 US/Eastern, iBook List wrote:

>> The bureaucrats must've really grumbled about the Y0K problem.
>
> I must have blinked or something. I can't recall the definition for
> "YOK". Please clarify. TIA

It's Y-ZERO-K. That's when all the record-keeping switched over from 
counting the years down in BC (A.K.A. "BCE") to counting up in AD 
(A.K.A. "CE"). It's a joke, since it wasn't until 700 years later that 
we started counting the years that way.

j



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Jonathan Fletcher