Subj : Y2K power failure?  ;-} (flamebait?)
To   : Russ Johnson
From : Everett Hertenstein
Date : Sat Jul 22 2000 05:28 am

Russ Johnson wrote in a message to Everett Hertenstein:

 RJ> That's probably because most of the "trouble" spots are behind us
 RJ> now. 

Would you believe I just found one last night in a spreadsheet I use 
occasionally?  It converts the date 00 to 1900.  Fortunately, I don't do any 
date related calculations there so it makes no difference.


> I don't really see a basis for flames in Melvin Aching's message. 
> One way of looking at it, y2k was a big joke.  OTOH, a lot of people 
> spent a lot of money on items they didn't need.

 RJ> The way I look at it, the *reason* the preparations weren't needed
 RJ> was because many thousands and possibly millions of people took on
 RJ> the monumental task of making sure there weren't any problems.

Obviously I wasn't looking at it from the standpoint of the programmers who did 
spend many hours looking for and reworking bits of code that would yield faulty 
results after the turn of the century.

 RJ> millions of dollars were spent to fix it. All that pre-emptive work
 RJ> resulted in what looks like a fizzle, but otherwise would have been
 RJ> a catastophe. 

As Nicolaas Hawkins pointed out,the potential for a monumental failure *did* 
exist.


   Everett
       Internet:  evhert@juno.com 
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