One of my clients finally decided to do a Y2K check of their building
security yesterday because of today being 9/9/99 and guess what?  Nobody's
badges worked anymore.  I never found out if it was because of todays date
or the end of the year, but the doors are working again today.






Shane Devereaux <[log in to unmask]> on 09/08/99 04:54:51 PM

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Subject:  Re: Another Y2K date tomorrow




Joe Geiser wrote:

> Ken Paul writes,
>
> > Since I'm in digest, I'm not sure if this subject has come up yet today
but
> > I wonder if we will hear about any interesting Y2K stories tomorrow.  I
know
> > that April 9, 1999 came and went without a problem and I think Sept 9,
1999
> > will do the same but it will be interesting to see what happens.
>
> I spoke to a friend in Australia this morning, working overtime, and he
> reported no glitches as the hour passed in OZ...  I guess we'll hear more
about
> it overnight, as it's still September 8th here for the next five hours
:-)
>
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As Joe said, I was working late and am back in working. I suggest anyone
that is
putting the things up on the List from North America is also working late
too.

Joe is right. To date there are no reported problems with 9/9/99 - that I
am aware
of anyway. I did not expect there to be but was on-hand to do the 'right
things' if
external agencies ( power ) began to experience problems. My feeling that
only
'legacy code' is likely to have such problems, and we do have some very old
code (
early 70's rpg/ksam ) running some important systems. Of these I now would
only
expect problems as users run processes that might call such date routines.
It was
highly unlikely that I, or I believe anyone would see anything at the
midnight
hour.

Hmmm...'overtime'. Down Under that word might suggest being paid for those
extra
hours. Hmmm, my boss says I should do it for the love of the job and
profession I
work in. All this love is making me tired.

Shane.


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