ObKoheleth Why do people keep talking about 20-20 hindsight for issues that had 
been discussed decades earlier?


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All:

Trying to get the government to take action on something of the nature you
all are talking about takes time unfortunately.
Hindsight is 20/20 ...thats the problem i see with Cobol - Unemployment.
Lets get it done which is fine but no plan ........thats a big issue

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 5:39 AM R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:

> W dniu 22.04.2020 o 19:54, Pew, Curtis G pisze:
> > On Apr 22, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> It's nowhere near as bad as Y2K. Y2K potentially affected just about
> >> everything. Everything with a date calculation. Everything that
> accepted or
> >> printed a date.
> >>
> > That’s an important point. Dates are often used in calculations. SSNs
> mostly just used as keys and stored. For Y2K we had to fix code that was
> doing date arithmetic, but you wouldn’t have that if they expanded SSNs.
> >
>
> To complement: Y2K had a deadline. The date of implementation could not
> be changed.
> As someone described, there is approx 80 years to exhaust SSN space. So,
> let's assume:
> 5 years of doing nothing
> 5 years for designing the change and discussion
> 10 years for implementation the change
> another 5 years to help them who didn't do it yet
> another 5 years for them who still didn't do it.
> and there is still 50 years of buffer.
>
> My idea how to change SSN: simply add alpha character. Your existing SSN
> would become A 123-456-789. Of course an SSN without the prefix has the
> letter A by default.
> Then next SSNs would have B prefix. Then (how many years later?) C, then
> D...
> Not enough? Then start with two-letter prefix: AA, AB, AC...
>
>
>
> My €0.02
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