On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, F. Alfredo Rego wrote:
> From Reuters:
> PITTSBURGH -- Trying to prevent massive computer problems when the year 2000
> arrives, government information officers yesterday adopted a new standard for
> representing the year in computer systems.
> At a one-day summit in Pittsburgh, chief information officers from 40 states
> and 22 federal agencies adopted a new date identification code.
> At a news conference after the summit, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge told
> reporters that officials had agreed to use four digits to identify the year
> in all state and federal agency computers.

Did it really take a "summit" to have them all agree to using 4-digit years?
Tax dollars at work...

> Everyone at Adager is thrilled to be an integral part of this massive
> effort (which, by the way, extends well beyond the U.S. borders).

You can tell me :). Right now all financial institutions in Mexico have at
least 3 different auditors (the central bank, the corresponding regulatory
comission --such as the equivalent of the SEC--, and the internal auditors) on
top of Y2K. (I'm happy to say that the new, in-house-developed systems we
rolled out a year ago are totally Y2K problem-free.)

Some big consultancy firms are making a *lot* of money out of this.

Cheers...                       Marco Zamora