At 06:12 PM 9/9/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I noticed that no problems have been reported due to the date 990909 (which
>was claimed to create problems - the explanation why it should is still
>highly unlogical) in the majority of the world (I haven't seen that nothing
>has happened in N/S-America yet, and no reports what so ever from the rest
>of the world).
>Funny Japan was considered to be one of the countries were the least work
>had been done to "fix the problem". If no problems occured then that must
>be because there wasn't any, right?
Well, Bernie, first there's some details, it's not 990909 but 99999 that is
a special stop code of some sort, that detail I've not bothered to
store. That was why a lot of half-thinking people went out of sorts on the
ninth day of the nineth month of nineteen-ninety-nine. But as you can see,
that date isn't 99999 but 19990909, a much different number.
As to Y2K, the issue is what will various computers in verious essential
positions running utility companies and financial accounts do when they get
two incongrous dates, 2000 and 1972 or 1986 or 1900 depending on the
machine? will they crash? Will they ignore it and just blithely spit out
things in the wrong date? What if it's my bank account and it now says I
had started my account in 1972 but now it's 1901 and has time
reversed? How does it calculate interest back seventy years? Does it
subtract money?
These are the sorts of concerns with Y2K and the reason it's less of an
issue is that it's been high time and more most of these establishments
upgraded and so most have indeed done that, put out the cash and bought
newer and more capable systems with millenium ready clocks. Many others
have run various test and found that nothing serious happens. There will
be places where the computer system conks out, there will be cities who's
traffic lights no longer co-ordinate, where utility bills come out garbled,
or where the water or power system fails. These places will have a lot of
work to fix it, and all manually. it is because of that that people are
still concerned.
For me, my bank has upgraded, as has my city and most of the major
institutions in it (save the health system, best I don't get sick next
year) and so I am complacent and content to sit back and see what happens.
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