With the passing of the New Year we all were able to breathe easier that the lights and phones stayed on. But the danger of y2k is far from over. The utilities guessed right when they turned back the clocks to make up for Code that wouldnt be fixed in time. It has only served to buy them a little more time, it will have to be fixed properly at some time in the future.

It may have been better to let the power fail in some places and fix it properly, but the decision to keep power up at all cost was made. Only time will tell if this was a wise decision.

The biggest y2k bump we know face is the finanical insitutions. They wont be able to turn the clocks back and get away with such a cheap fix. They can fake out the power and telecomunications but making sure the digital digits dont get scrambled in banking,real time manufacturing processes like oil and chemicals will be another story, Only those who have spent the real money and did the diligent hard work will emerge as the survivors.

We are far from being out of the woods.The start of business Jan 3 will be real telling. The military is probably operating with deminished data processing capability in all areas of combat readiness, having to face a new Cold war with adversaries who are less technological dependant as we are, and who have superior quantative numbers of hardware then we do. We have been lucky so far, lets hope that this luck continues. As for lack of visable y2k problems it is early yet. There are many y2k problems with nuke plants that have been handled well at local level so far and chem plants were turned off prior to rollover. Alot of people did alot of things right and our graditude is with them for keeping things safe and event free so far. Be thankful to God that it has went smoothly so far but dont giveaway your food preps just yet. If it all goes smoothly by May then you can rest assured that we have made it through. Broken code is going to rear it's ugly head in some very visable ways.

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike @ conservation . com), January 01, 2000

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Mike... I agree 1000%.

another Mike

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

Hey Mike, the power companies did not move the clocks back in time, they were moved forward! Give it up Doomer, AIN'T Gonna happen!

-- PPLSP (Powerlineman@here.com), January 01, 2000.

"THEY MOVED THEM FORWARD"

I moved some forward to 2027 so that they would roll to 2028 at the CDC, if they would take it. Lots couldn't. Some I could roll back to 1971, and they roll over to 1972.

The reason for this is that the "day and date" line up the same as 2000, even daylight savings.

However, some boards won't go past two digits for the year, and some cannot go back past the date that their board was manufactured, eg 83 or so.

While some of you are really enjoying "rubbing our collective faces in it", those of us who really work with this stuff are at work now, correcting the "problems that didn't happen."

I am just glad we all have heat, water and lights.

Happy New Year to all, from an engineer up to his eyes in remediation of the "non problem."

-- Jim Sharp (JIM4RLORD@aol.com), January 01, 2000.

CMON Mike,

The scenarios depicted on this board were TEOTWAWKI, Cyber-terrorism, real terrorism, bin laden, oil shortages, etc, etc..

NOT Banking application failures or generic application bugs. Who cares if thousands of application systems go down! We have power, communications and $$. I don't think it's going to be anything more than an inconvienience.

There is NO indication that the military is having ANY problem at all. Have you heard any report on this?

BILLIONS of chips HAVE ALREADY passed the Y2K test. With the entire world reporting in, every minute, we don't even hear of major anomalies, much less TEOTWAWKI.

It's over, every thing else repairable.

-- bryce (bryce@seanet.com), January 01, 2000.

Attaboy mr Sharp thanks for all you have done ,and all the utility workers and engineers hard work all around the world who helped make the y2k transistion as smooth as it was. Thank God the workarounds worked. Job well done.

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike @ conservation . com), January 01, 2000.

Many utilities did move their clocks back and a few moved them forward for certain facilities. This was reported in the press in quite a few instances. For example, the Miami Herald reported that the clocks at the Broward County water treatment had been moved back. We still don't know the situation at refineries and chemical plants. I don't know if it is feasible to set the clocks back at these types of facilities.

-- Dave (dannco@hotmail.com), January 01, 2000.