Y0K (fwd)

 >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 it all out at this last minute.
 >>
 >>I spoke to Caesar 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 hour glass
 >>flowing upwards.  We have heard that there are three wise
 >>men in the East who have been working on the problem, but
 >>unfortunately they won't arrive until it's all over.  Some
 >>say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition.
 >>Anyway we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y zero
 >>K problem and I will send you a parchment if anything further
 >>develops.
 >>
 >>Vale,
 >> Plutonius >>