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Letter: Letters : Time to convert?

Published 28 February 1998

From Martin Gregorie

Gregorie@logica.com

A point nobody seems to have made about the forthcoming millennium is that
the “year 2000 bug” only affects Christian countries—those using the
Gregorian Calendar.

A consequence is that it is possible for an organisation to either avoid the
problem entirely or to at least delay its onset as long as required simply by
changing their business to use another calendar. A change to the Islamic
calendar should postpone the problem for almost 400 years.

Issue no. 2123 published 28 February 1998

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