Subject: 	Y0K Problem

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 hourglass 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