At 09:11 05/01/00 , Richard Lockwood wrote: >Isn't it ironic that computer users have shortened '2000' to 'Y2K'? Surely >that was what caused the whole problem in the first place? Especially as 2K is actually 2048. (1K = 2 to the power of 10 = 1024). Dave. Dave Berry, www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~daveb