Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: numbersystemsfromconlangs)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 18:57 |
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:21:28PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> I don't really think that would be such a problem. New versions of
> operating systems could simply come with both calendar systems, such
> that you could set it to whichever one you wanted. If the reformers
> gave a sufficient period of time for the reform to take place, then
> almost all computers could have the new calendar as an option by the
> switchover, and then it would just be a matter of people going into
> their settings and changing it.
Many of the Y2K problems lay in software that had been in use -
with neither application, operating system, nor hardware upgraded -
for over thirty years. What do you consider a "sufficient period
of time"? :)
-Mark
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