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> Vending machines and ticket checking barriers and the like are more likely
> to suffer complete failures as they would tend to deal in absolute dates.
Cityrail's, State Transit's and SLR's ticketing systems do have a date
problem, but it isn't Y2K. The date is encoded on the ticket as a 12
bit number, counting the number of days since December 31, 1989.
Expect Cityrail's manual gates to get a workout on March 19, 2001.
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Michael Edge
Sydney, Australia
email: medge@sia.net.au