34 Federal Work days until January 2000? This can't be true. Or is it?

I went into the site that tracks Federal Work Days vs actual number of days until Jan 1, 2000.

This can't be true. Can it? Someone help me out! I don't want to believe it.

TASC Year 2000 Service Bureau: Providing full life cycle Year 2000 Services to Federal, State, and Local Governments.

COUNTDOWN TO JANUARY 1, 2000:

Federal Days: 34 Total Days: 62

PLEASE don't jump and respond with some flippant comment. What's the deal? This doesn't look right. If it is ... we're in REAL trouble. http://www.tasc.dot.gov/y2k/

I've been tracking IRS, FAA & FDA stuff ... all bleak.

Even 62 days is inadequate. But, 34 days ..................

-- Cheryl (Transplant@Oregon.com), October 30, 1999

Answers

The .gov doesn't count weekend days, holidays ectectect. on the calender. Thats why we're down to 34 +/-. They haven't calculated in the 'other days'

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 30, 1999.

P.S.

Cheryl, I have added the link to my Start Menu and check it daily. The people at my Post Office complain that they have to work more than Federal Days...they know time is getting short. As to it being correct, when I activate the link, I get the answer even though not connected to the net. If I'm on line, it goes to the TASC site and gets the numbers. If I'm not on line, the link is to an applet on my machine which calculates the numbers using an algorithm. But either way, it is real, and that's how long we have 'till the END.

Finish preps NOW!!!

-- K. Stevens (kstevens @ It's ALL going away in January.com), October 30, 1999.

Actually

34 working days is optimistic. I used to do work for the US Navy (the Feds). Most people were gone for most of the month of December. Of course, this year may (hopefully) be a bit different.

-- G (balzer@lanset.com), October 30, 1999.

G.-I agree. Washington is full of federal workers on vacation in December. Many of them have so much time to burn up they hardly go to work that month.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), October 30, 1999.

If you can honestly read this and still NGI then....

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by Dale Way Chairman of IEEE Y2K

If an organization goes off half-cocked, without complete, detailed knowledge of how its system of systems works altogether in all normal and possible abnormal situations, as the vast majority of remediators have done, yet make wholesale changes as if it did have that knowledge, they are doomed to failure unless it had many more years than the three of four most organizations have been at it. (Some agencies of the U.S. government were not being fallacious when they first said they would be ready as late as 2014. They were just being honest. Of course, that "politically unacceptable" response was quickly squelched.) It would be better for the whole world if this could be admitted. Then non-technical contingency planning would have the urgency at all levels of society it deserves. But technical management and the Y2Klatura collectively do not have the brains or the guts to do that DEFINITIVELY. We will hew to our baseless confidence or pussyfoot around the obvious until the end. Collectively we are going to drive the ship right into the iceberg and not say anything until the screaming starts and then claim we did all we could to make everything compliant. We will burn in Hell.

3. EPILOG

If this sounds harsh, it is only what history has in store for us, the self-appointed Y2Klatura. For we have taken it upon ourselves to define the problem and the solution. We have allowed or encouraged civilians to believe we knew how to handle it. We have buried our own doubts or mealy-mouthed them to the extent we allowed others to believe what was most comfortable for them. Though we have often ranted, we have allowed apologists and scare-mongers to each have their audience. We have given little to leaders that they can use on their terms in their world. We ourselves have been wrong about much. We have not examined ourselves nearly as much as we are demanding others examine themselves. We, too, have believed our own PR. It is time to make amends and do more to undo the damage we have inflicted. Until we do that we cannot expect others to trust us. Rollover/End is a dangerous anthropomorphism that mischaracterizes and misdirects, Compliance the siren song that calls us to the rocks. Other concepts more firmly grounded must be embraced. Other things more firmly grounded must be done.

FOOTNOTES

* By Senator Slade Gorton (R-Washington). He also said of it : "The memorandum is so good that rather than simply have it printed in the Record, I will read it," and he read almost all of it in its four-page entirety on the floor of the Senate. You can find Sen. Gortons comments and the complete memorandum at the IEEE site: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/tab/Y2Kfocus.html

** By Marc Pearl, General Counsel of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).

*** Y2Klatura is a take-off on the parasitic Soviet Nomenclatura, the upper-level apparatchics of the Communist Party who acquired power, status and privilege in a ideological, non-merit system where loyalty to the Party was the highest value.

END Well....

60 days

"The end of the beginning" - Churchill

The tertiary phase.

Realization, acceptance and panic.

God help us all!

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), October 31, 1999.

What so often marks the end is simply a new beginning.

Which begs the question: What is beginning? Do we want to know? How will we respond? After all, life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you deal with it.

No matter what the new beginning represents, I will march headlong with defiance in my eyes and refusal to give up in my heart. Bring it, Y2K! Lessee whatcha got!

-- OddOne (mocklamer_1999@yahoo.com), October 31, 1999.

Well said, Odd One!

"It's the Time of Your Life, so live it well." Randy Newman

Godspeed,

-- Pinkrock (aphotonboy@aol.com), November 01, 1999.