Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: Gentoo KDE meeting, 22 March 2012

[Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Theo Chatzimichos posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:30:07 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>> Again, the meeting is for 2012 (What's wrong with me??)
>
> LOL!  So I'm not the only one that finds himself doing fine the first
> couple months (well, after about the third day anyway) while the new year
> is still new enough to be thinking about, but then come March and April
> when he's no longer thinking about it, finds himself writing the OLD year
> again!
>
> Not to worry /too/ much.  In another several weeks you'll finally get
> your fingers trained to write 2012, and then you'll be OK... until next
> year when it happens all over again!  Here, I'm usually about finished
> with the adjustment by mid April, tho there's been a few years where the
> problem has triggered a time or two in June, even.  But I don't recall
> having the problem after June, ever.
>
> =:^\
>
> Unfortunately, I had a similar Y2K triggered problem... with a cycle time
> in years.  For some reason, about 2008 or so, I suddenly found myself
> writing 199... again!  The only explanation for THAT I can think of is
> that it actually TOOK that long for the novelty of writing 200... to wear
> off.  I didn't have so much problem with 201... but based on that, I
> won't, either, until 2016 or 2018.
>
> =:^\

No, the Qt meeting's date was a mistake because at the same time I was
writing some 2011 reports at work, and the KDE meeting's mail was a
copy-paste of the Qt one, where I didn't correct all the dates