Analysis of y2k impact from australia:

Excerpt:

"At the sensible end of the spectrum, members of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) have spent years methodically working their way through the simple, but time-consuming problems caused by being two characters short in a date field. John Ridge, ACS president, maintains it was time and money well spent.

Every large organisation he spoke to was experiencing minor problems despite extensive preparations, but was not reporting the bugs to the public, according to Ridge. Those problems in non-critical systems indicated what could have been, he said - critical systems had been dealt with first, but similar date field problems had been removed from millions of lines of code. Corporate affairs manager for the Australian Information Industries Association, Michel Hedley, said medium-sized companies were getting "a lot of minor glitches" in accounting and business processing software, but were dealing with them. The important thing was to ensure dates used for calculations were correct, he said."

Link to story:

http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/industry/20000111/A16471-2000Jan10.html

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 10, 2000

Answers

Hey another country trying to keep things going bump quiet. What a concept huh? Why do all the gov types need to keep a lid on stuff? We have been ready for months. Don't they know we won't panic? Or is it the sheeple they are worried about? Tee hee....

-- Wise Owl@the tree.com (juliekay1@hotmail.com), January 10, 2000.