Why is this on the computer???

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hello... I work at a bank in the midwest.. I have posted here before , and been lurking for about twenty months.. like every body else.. I am shocked, everything is normal at the bank..the computer screen reads Jan.3 2000. reciepts read the same... but...... when I go into another page of the computer, my credit card information reads expiration date... 102/mm/dd.. any thoughts??

-- any answers? (please explain@do you know.com), January 03, 2000

Answers

If the computer doesn't crash, Don't Worry, Be Happy!

[g,d&r]

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 03, 2000.


Must be a Y2k bug!

-- fatanddumb (fatdumb@nd.happy), January 03, 2000.

It means you are going to be hearing from a lot of PO'ed people who are being told their card has expired.

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 03, 2000.

Lowes credit cards screwed up over the weekend, so did Sears.

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), January 03, 2000.

Let me take a stab at it ..... There's something screwy with your GUI. You work at the bank, have you been getting phone calls from irate cutomers because there credit cards are being rejected? Which by the way, would be a sure sign that the world will be ending soon. To think that the cashiers at Sears and Loews actually had to look at the expiration date on the card and take a manual imprint of it boggles the mind. Boy one more body blow like that and it's all over.

-- zzzzz (usuallyalurker@thisisgetting.ridiculous), January 03, 2000.


Hey, twit, guess what?

An increasing amount of credit card transactions are done *without* a clerk looking at the date.

I guess you'll just stand there and reason with the *machine* when it thinks your card has expired?

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 03, 2000.


My disabled son"s JanuarySocial Security payment did not arrive at his bank as of today. Bank says it will probably come in tomorrow or sometime this week.Anyone else have this problem?

-- Betty Alice (Barn266@aol.com), January 03, 2000.

So you mean to tell me that there's no manual backup to those convenient credit card machines. That if Sears or Loews or Joe's Grocery Store, for that matter, had a problem (y2k or otherwise) with those little machines they would just close their doors until they were fixed?

No. They reach under the counter, blow the dust off the imprint machines, and make the sale. Sure it takes a little longer, but that's life.

-- zzzzz (usuallyalurker@thisisgetting.ridiculous), January 03, 2000.


Well, actually, most stores no longer have the manual credit card imprint thingie. Havent used it for several years so its tossed. At a BiLo in SC yesterday, there were 3 lines open (out of 7), 2 were "cash or check only" ONE credit card machine still hooked up. The others (in the other 6 lanes) had been removed. (they were there on Thursday, the last day I shopped) And no, they didnt have any manual credit card machines. A minor inconvenience. Maybe its fixed today.

-- shopper (Shopper@shoppers.com), January 03, 2000.

You don't need one of those slider machines to accept a credit card. You only need the number and the exp date. That's why I can take them over the phone at my bookstore.

Some Y2K sitings while I'm here: The scales at the grocery store where my partner works were out all day, yesterday. The tech guy who fixed them said it way Y2K. My bank's computer is down. Resource Conservation Credit Union. They say it's not y2k, but they don't know what it is.

-- bill bradley (billbradleyiww@hotmail.com), January 03, 2000.



As I replied to another post- it is about time someone who actually knows computers helps dispell some of this FUD.

This has a very simple explanation. Rather than as an absolute number, many computer systems store the year as the number of years since 1900. So the system, internal to itself, still understands the date just fine. The only mistake was in displaying it, it is not an indicator of some internal computer system problem.

So in this case, your expiration date is 2002/mm/dd

Sorry doomers...

-- N. Zax (smalltalkin@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.


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