Hints of Successful Time Travel Research!

Since when does a round-robin email from Information Services spark questions of time travel? Well, readers may be interested to seer the text for themselves:

Reminder ! On 2010-03-13 00:00:00 Exchange, staff email , will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance until 1900-01-00 00:00:00

Dr William Ho, Senior Lecturer of Temporal Physics at Poppleton New University, said "I can neither confirm nor deny that the department has cracked the problem we set ourselves," although he did confirm that the department enjoyed extremely close connections with Information Services, including frequent night-time intensive use of the computing reserves of PNeUNet.

Questions had been asked last month about the sudden appearance of a large quantity of funds in what had appeared to be a dormant Temporal Physics Coffee Fund. Dr Freeman-Guise, Lecturer in Practical Stock Market Manipulation, had speculated that the sum matched that which would be generated by "about 110 years" of compound interest upon an investment of 1 old penny. When questioned further on the matter Dr Ho merely smiled and offered this reporter a jelly baby.