We're 14 hours ahead of the States. Came in to work, everything normal, traffic, power, coffee percolator, air conditioning, computers, email, elevator, old part of the building. Nuthin'. Zilch. I woz robbed!

-- pauline jansen (paulinej@angliss.vic.edu.au), September 08, 1999

Answers

Why do you think they call it Y2K?

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), September 08, 1999.

Pardon me, but I did think 9/9/99 was its little brother.

-- pauline jansen (paulinej@angliss.vic.edu.au), September 08, 1999.

What about planes? See any falling from the sky?

-- a (a@a.a), September 08, 1999.

pauline,

Good to hear that. As long as the electricity stays on, darned near any glich can be hidden... unless its a showstopper.

Diane

It's Not Y2K, But 9/9/99 May Hit PCs
Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
)1999 San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/08/BU25634.DTL

[snip]

Robert Martin, coordinator of Y2K consulting work for Mitre Corp. of Bedford, Mass., said there were legitimate worries about 9999 at the start of the year. Mitre, which does Y2K consulting for government organizations and private companies, last year even issued a list of upcoming critical Y2K dates to watch, including tomorrow.

But the work done this year to stamp out potential Y2K problems has also helped eradicate most if not all 9999 problems, Martin said.

``It's not hype, because there have been a lot of systems where we found this problem, such as military and government systems,'' Martin said. ``Most organizations have been treating this very seriously and it will be a nonevent because they have.''

[snip--to end]

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 08, 1999.

Yes, 9/9/99 here in New Zealand also. We had a suprise communications test in the power stations here at 03:00 this morning, and all went well.

One small computer glitch just after midnight, but it was a Windows NT run time error, and nohing to do with any date.

No other reports of anything so far.

Malcolm.

-- Malcolm Taylor (taylorm@es.co.nz), September 08, 1999.

Pauline,

This has been discussed at length for months. No one with any serious expertise expected problems on Sept 9/1999. See Gary North archives and past discussions here. Your post is seen as troll-like by those more well informed.

-- RDH (drherr@erols.com), September 08, 1999.

RDH

So if she had posted that the power is flickering, and the water is discolered, and sewage is backing up in the streets and banks are closing early blah...blah...blah she would have been considered less troll like more well informed and overall more trustworty?

C-mon man if you want these people to "get it" then you have to get over your arrogance and realize that there is a world of people out there who are not programmers and don't understand this problem and are looking for signs under every rock they turn over.

If you belittle every person from around the world who feels like they have something to say, then I'm afraid you will end up with a bunch of computer programmers posting a bunch of boring stupid stuff and no real people to balance it out!

-- get over (yourself@dot.com), September 08, 1999.

Paranoia strikes again!

-- A kangaroo is a kissing cousin to a (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), September 08, 1999.

Also see this thread:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001Mjr

"September 9, 1999 and the groups that will be monitoring it"

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 08, 1999.

I heard Michael Hyatt on the radio this morning, who said ,(I paraphrase) ..."uh well, what was discovered was that in files that hold data that might intersect the 9999 end of run problem,...the "date" (9/9/99) gets recorded as 090999.....not 9999."

And as some wise guy said during the great flowering of logic and philosophy on Planet Earth(Ancient Greece I 'spose): "Absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence." (which would be The Fallacy of Affirming The Consequent) 'Course whoever he was said it in another language in a time-space continuum far, far away.....

--another lovely day in Paradise, in my sheet, upon the hill.

-- Donna (moment@pacbell.net), September 08, 1999.

Hi Guys, Just thought I would add my two cents. Just saw on the t.v. a little news brief about this. Woman says,"Forget about Y2K, we now have something bigger to worry about. (pahleeeeze) Then she goes on to say that computers everywhere could fail at midnight tonight due to a a date glich. Well my take on this is that the media knows this is not going to be a problem since Australia had no reported problems. So they are making this out to be big news and all the sheeple are supposed to get all worried and nervous about what is going to happen at midnight tonight...Then of course when everything is just fine after midnight they will come back on and say the usual. Well since that was far more worrisome then Y2K then we should all feel better now about the future. The public will all be happy once again and so on and so on. Bigger than Y2K??? The nerve. How many ppl are now not going to prepare any further or even begin preps because of this...they know not what they do.

-- shellie (shellie01@hotmail.com), September 08, 1999.

Folks,

Not trolling, really, I *never* expected 9/9/99 to be a problem and I'm prepping seriously for the real day but I feel I should report our status.

However, we're a substantial Mainframe shop running OS/390, CICS, IMS, COBOL II and most of the other support stuff you would expect. It's now 09:20 hours, 09/09/99 in Canberra, Australia and everything is up and running normally as we have expected all along.

This should not be taken as any indication that Y2K will be the same!

RonD

-- Ron Davis (rdavis@ozemail.com.au), September 08, 1999.

Donna!!!

That's all.

Mike

9999999999999999999999999999999999999*#^%@*)(%e?5g,,e?%g).4-------

-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), September 08, 1999.

Get over,

"So if she had posted that the power is flickering, and the water is discolered, and sewage is backing up in the streets and banks are closing early blah...blah...blah she would have been considered less troll like more well informed and overall more trustworty?"

Uhh, try reading what she posted. Stating that you feel "robbed" because no cyber problems are occuring seems a bit 'troll-like' to me.

"C-mon man if you want these people to "get it" then you have to get over your arrogance and realize that there is a world of people out there who are not programmers and don't understand this problem and are looking for signs under every rock they turn over.

Arrogance? LOL!!! I gently pointed out that the detailed info on this point was readily available and counter to her stated feelings of disappointment. Milne would have just called her a fool and Dead Female Walking! What makes you think I have any desire for her (or you) to "get it"? Natural selection will work regardless of my opinion or desires.

"If you belittle every person from around the world who feels like they have something to say, then I'm afraid you will end up with a bunch of computer programmers posting a bunch of boring stupid stuff and no real people to balance it out!"

So having "real" people expressing opinions which are factually incorrect (but sensational) "balances" the "boring " nerds? I've got news for you. Y2k computer problems are largely boring!

Try using a real e-mail address! Hotmail works fine....

-- RDH (drherr@erols.com), September 08, 1999.

I have always felt these other "critical dates" have been over hyped both here and in the media. The news tonight spent 3 minutes on it as a preview to y2k. If nothing major happens (as I suspect it won't), tomorrow will come and go. The masses will be put back to sleep with a "see nothing happened on 9/9/99 and nothing will happen on 1/1/00". The pollys will rejoice, the media will report 9/9/99 was a non-event, keep your money in the bank or the bad guys will steal it, prepare for minor disruptions 3-7 days of food and water, January 1st is just another day.....

-- Bill (y2khippo@yahoo.com), September 08, 1999.

Bill, they spent three minutes on 9/9/99? What in the world did they say?

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), September 08, 1999.

A reporter for our local ABC news did a story about 2 weeks ago saying there would be all kinds of problems on 9/9/99. I called him and "chatted" for a little while. He said he wished he had talked to me before he did the segment. :-)

EDS found a lot of 9999's as they were remediating code for Y2K and changed them at the same time. I think most companies did.

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 08, 1999.

RDH I don't think your pretentious attitude and replys are necessary. You're merely calming your own fears and concerns about the technological mess we've all bought into and are responsible for. Peace be with you. Jon

-- Jon Robbins (interpreter24@yahoo.com), September 08, 1999.

RDH "Uhh, try reading what she posted. Stating that you feel "robbed" because no cyber problems are occuring seems a bit 'troll-like' to me." Lighten up will you?

-- pauline jansen (paulinej@angliss.vic.edu.au), September 08, 1999.

FWIW, as a Y2K project manager, I have been in contact with two staff members in the far east tonight who report no problems. The company that I work for is taking the 9/9 date seriously, and we are monitoring events, even though nobody expects much to go wrong. We are all watching closely and submitting our reports by the end of tomorrow to a centralized area. Looks like it's going to be primarily a drill or test of how we will be monitoring the main century rollover event - at least that is what is intended to be one benefit from doing this tonight.

-- Rob Michaels (sonofdust@com.net), September 08, 1999.

Lane, The 9999 segment started with a history of why 9999 could be a problem: code for end run, error, etc... Interview with companies that have fixed it. Then a little y2k thrown in for the end of the segment. It lasted 2-3 minutes, and the concensus was....drum roll please..... no big problems expected tomorrow.

-- Bill (y2khippo@yahoo.com), September 08, 1999.

Thanks, Bill.

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), September 09, 1999.

Gayla,

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure you chatted with a reporter. Where, in a dream?

-- (doomersARE@whiners.com), September 09, 1999.