Re: Y2K for the railway industry

["Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>]

>Not really strange.  There's no way that the year is going to be a
>time prior to the trains manufacture.  Making the century roll over
>point at "86" provides close to a 100 year windows during which the
>TMS clock will function correctly.  I guess they don't expect Tangaras
>to still be working in 2086.
>
They just don't build them to last any more, not like the good old days when
trains were solid metal, not this flimsy aluminium, plastic and fibreglass
stuff...8^)