Chips haven't rolled yet. They are on Greenwich Mean time. New years starts at 7:00 PM eastern standard time.

-- goldbug (goldbug@mint.com), December 31, 1999

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Sorry goldbug...but I doubt that anything will happen then either. If China stayed up, and Russia does too, I think I was wrong about Y2K, and let me admit that now. Happy New Year!

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

I certanly hope you are right Uncle Bob.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), December 31, 1999.

You could be right, Umcle Bob.

But even ABC (Jennings/Donanldson) just had a great discussion of how the "Y2K" bug can show up unexpectedly and later than "rollover".

Donaldson specifically mentioned when businesses reopen, medical devices, February 29.

All these posts indicating we're "safe" are just plain wrong at this time.

Hopeful... yes. But thats all.

-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), December 31, 1999.

Wait a minute! Who SAYS that imbedded chips are on GMT? I doubt it.

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), December 31, 1999.

Mr. Johnson, I believe it is true that many y2k glitches will appear over the next few months. The bulk will be in the next few days and they will peter out over time. I also believe that they will be able to be worked around. A pain the neck, but workable. We have been having y2k glitches show up for months now, and in almost all cases they have been workable too.

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), December 31, 1999.

I hope and pray you're right, got a baby coming in June and need those operating facilities up and working. But I believe we're still in for some problems, economically at the very least.

-- Tiara (sorceress5@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999.

I agree about not counting your chickens yet.

I'm still skeptical. Almost all of the webcams are down, and the Zone 2000 site hasn't been updating for a while. For some reason, I don't totally trust the mainstream media.

Furthermore, we don't know what is happening in the corporate and government sectors yet. Many problems in those areas won't become apparent until next week.

Also, there is still all of Europe and the United States that hasn't rolled over yet. Yes, it's encouraging that there have been no reports of power outages yet, but there are still plenty of areas of concern that we still don't have any information about one way or the other. In other words, we still don't know

I don't know about the others here, but I still can't make plans for next week or next year just yet.

-- Clyde (clydeblalock@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999.

Be happy and be prepared to admit you were wrong, at this point things appear good, no news of bad things coming in, thousands of programmers and management working through the weekend, every state has a task force to deal with issues. Longer term, perhaps it does effect the economy. The bottom line is when you hear about things like Mr. CEO and a friend of a friend type stuff and supposedly underfunded/underprepared countries have no apparent problems, you wonder where the disconnect is?

You wonder if there ever was a real source or if it was fabricated?

-- LALA (LaLALAND@aol.com), December 31, 1999.

Webcams work for me...last Tokyo photo at 1:57am local time...

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

Oops...let me try this one...2:05am Tokyo time

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 31, 1999.

"webcams are down"

?

Naaa, just too many "hits"...

-- Anonymous999 (Anonymous999@Anonymous999.xxx), December 31, 1999.

So, Goldbug; It's now 1952 hrs PST. Can I start coounting my chickens now?

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), December 31, 1999.