Want to know what happen ???

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Here's the scoop!

Many companies, especially utilities, turned back clocks, 10, 15, 20 years. All different times so as to buy time and have failure occur over several years. Modules they couldn't get fixed or rebuilt that were special for their business can now be replaced slowly. They will continue to work on the items over the next few years. For others, they just bought time until they could retire and get out of the mess. With many of the systems they didn't need to worry about talking to each other so the time roll back worked. There will be problems but over a wider range of time to help deal with them. Pretty smart if you ask me. They should get credit for these work arounds they came up with. If you have any questions ask sysops for verifcation.

-- verified w/sysop HD (alsdkfj@this is true.com), January 01, 2000

Answers

certainly an elegant cheap solution for some of the problems. ;)

-- KatInSeattle (YouC@ntSpamMe.com), January 01, 2000.

Is this true? any verification??

-- farmer (hillsidefarm@drbs.com), January 01, 2000.

Sounds good to me! Hot water for a shower beats cold water any day of the week!!!

-- haha (haha@haha.com), January 01, 2000.

I don't think so as far as embeds are concered. Also some may have rolled back but not most as you then have to fix all the input and outputs to the system to convert to the real dates and every system would have to be shut down and restarted. The real issue is that most embeds have calendar functions in them, they use counters to find out when time has passed and then do something. When you boot these systems up, I bet you never even enter the current date into 99.999% of these systems with emeds in them.

See my post below at:

Why nothing was ever going to happen with the embeds

-- Interested Spectator (is@the_ring.side), January 01, 2000.


A local bank admitted they turned the clock back on their phone systems because they were going to replace it later this year. How does that work???

-- y2k dave (xsdaa111@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.


verification??? Yes, check with sysops...see title. They fixed as much as they could. I am simply telling what the fix was for alot of the systems...not all. some of the systems/embedded etc weren't date dependent. Take it or leave it..the info is true and a very intelligent work around.

-- Moore dinty Moore (dac@ccrtc.com), January 01, 2000.

This may show my novice thinking in this area but how will this affect their billing with the year rolled back? How will accounting keep track with wrong dates? or reorders for parts or whatever?

Just wondering what kind of impact a rollback my have.....

-- Sammie (sammiex0@yahoo.com), January 01, 2000.


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