Y2K song ... nyuk, nyuk

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 Two Digits for a Date 
 (to the tune of "Gilligan's Island," more or less)
 
 
 Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale 
 Of the doom that is our fate. 
 That started when programmers used 
 Two digits for a date. 
 Two digits for a date. 
 
 Main memory was smaller then; 
 Hard disks were smaller, too. 
 "Four digits are extravagant, 
 So let's get by with two. 
 So let's get by with two." 
 
 "This works through 1999," 
 The programmers did say. 
 "Unless we rewrite by then
 It all will go away. 
 It all will go away." 
 
 But Management had not a clue: 
 "It works fine now, you bet! 
 A rewrite is a straight expense; 
 We won't do it just yet. 
 We won't do it just yet." 
 
 When year 2000 rolls around 
 date math calculations lose  
 For zero's less than ninety-nine, 
 Which's something we can't use. 
 Which's something we can't use. 
 
 The mail won't bring your pension check 
 It won't be sent to you 
 When you're no longer sixty-eight, 
 But minus thirty-two. 
 But minus thirty-two. 
 
 The problems we're about to face 
 Are frightening, for sure. 
 And reading every line of code's 
 The only certain cure. 
 The only certain cure. 
 
 [key change, big finish] 
 There's not much time, 
 There's too much code. 
 (And Cobol-coders, few) 
 When the century is finished with, 
 We may be finished, too. 
 We may be finished, too. 
 
 Eight thousand years from now I hope 
 That things weren't left too late, 
 And people aren't then lamenting 
 Four digits for a date. 
 Four digits for a date.


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