Starting Monday night, corporate America will begin running month end for the first time. Could be interesting. Keep your eyes and ears open for signs of failures.

Thanks to most of you for helping me stay atuned and informed on Y2K. Love the reports, hate the assaults. Annoying disruptive pond scum.

-- tflook (tflook@compuserve.com), January 26, 2000

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Yes, and Tuesday is January 32nd (at least that's what some embeddeds 'think'). So next week will be interesting.

-- Y2kObserver (Y2kObserver@nowhere.com), January 26, 2000.

nothing to worry about until 2/2/2. Computers have never had to deal with three deuces before...

MISTER Pond Scum to you, bubba.

-- jumpoff joe a.k.a. Al K. Lloyd (jumpoff@ekoweb.net), January 26, 2000.

I doubt that anything will happen, and if it does it will not be Y2K related...

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), January 26, 2000.

Yup, the first month-end will be the next "big date" to watch, IMHO. Check out the link posted in this thread:

Did Y2K consultants cry wolf?

A few snips:

Back-end systems that handle the processing of financial reports, statements and bills have yet to be fully tested, said Howard Rubin, CEO of Rubin Systems Inc., in Pound Ridge, N.Y. Rubin estimated that by the end of last week, 60 percent to 70 percent of the worlds computer systems would have yet to be fully used since the year switch.

Were not through, said Peter de Jager, a speaker and consultant in Brampton, Ontario, who wrote one of the first articles on the threat of Y2K. Theres a tremendous amount of processing that has not yet occurred. Until then, any judgments about if we succeeded are very premature.

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I think the 60-70% number is about right. Invoices, statements, ATB's, these are the programs that run once a month. And they will be running, live, with year 2000 dates for the first time. No, I don't expect "end-of-the-world" problems, but I do expect problems.

I think "be alert" pretty much says it.

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-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), January 26, 2000.

tflook, The production systems(electricity production and distribution, water treatment and distribution, telecommunications, etc.) received their first major hurdle on Jan.1,2000. They cleared it successfully. The administrative and accounting systems first major hurdle will be the end of this month. A&A systems are much more vunerable and prone to source code errors. They lack the built in redundancy seen in production systems.

-- NoJo (RSKeiper@aol.com), January 26, 2000.