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Re: mini Y2K?



At 06:39 PM 31-10-99 -0500, you wrote:
This is probably the bizarre speculation of a twisted mind (I hope so!),
but from the divulged timing it struck me that the crash of the Egyptian
flight 990 may have occurred precisely when its computer software made the
change from "daylight savings" to "standard" time!

Oh my, Bob, you are absolutely right -- none of the news people have picked
up on this.

OTOH, I doubt that the airlines use ET as a standard -- more likely UT --
especially an Egyptian airline.

Pilots on the list do tell us.

Jim Green
mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen