At 23:47 20/10/1995 +0000, you wrote:
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>to all our maritime history colleagues -- Happy 190th Trafalgar Day, Oct. 21

Trafalgar ?  Trafalgar ?  Waterloo ? Waterloo ? I do not remember of
anything like it
anywhere...

Vive Napoleon !

Vive la France !

:-)

>as for decades, it is probably going to be impossible to stop folks from having
>a big, misinformed party the night of 31 Dec 1999.  So, we might just have to
>agree the first century of this era had only 99 years, the first to 99AD, and
>the second century began in the year 100.
>
>I am still worried about all the two digit date boxes in my computer when the
>calendar changes and I have to tell the difference between 1901 and 2001.
>
>cheers
>Mac Swackhammer
>trapped inland
>
>
Jean-Paul Viaud, curator
Canadian Railway Museum
Delson/St-Constant, Quebec, Canada