Sixty Percent of Large Businesses in Japan Expect Y2K Troubles Looks like clue-free Japanese executives have been listening to clue-free American executives (emphasis added): Table: Forecast of Occurrence of Y2K-related Troubles Troubles will never occur: 18.0%
Solved within several hours: 19.6%
Solved in a day: 14.2%
Will take a few days: 15.8%
Will take a week or so: 7.0%
Will take two weeks or more: 4.0%
No idea: 21.4%
Actually, the true answer is "No idea: 100%".

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), August 18, 1999

Answers

I hate it when that happens. :-(

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), August 18, 1999.

Perhaps one of the most interesting points here is that this is first time I have seen the confidence level "slipping" in Japan. Their previous position had been to say that things are fixed, or will be fixed, before the rollover. Now, we get a slightly more realistic picture, in accordance with what numerous experts had been saying.

Electric power in Japan will be especially vulnerable, since they import virtually everything they need at the commercial level. Beyond fish, rice and assorted vegetables, they don't have much in the way of "raw materials".

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), August 18, 1999.

But what would have caused the confidence to slip?

Keep your...

-- eyes_open (best@wishes.net), August 18, 1999.

But... but the polly's told me that there will be no problems. They told me it's just a "people problem." They told me that if I don't panic, my code will work fine without fixing it.

-- Larry (cobol.programmer@usa.net), August 18, 1999.