Re: Year 2000 Bug -Reply

DARRELL WOOLEN (DWOOLEN_at_wnco.com)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:24:45 -0600

Pete
I think your advice to Bob was on the one.
You could not have express the issue more definitively.
The laxidasical attitude of this person represent the biggest fear we will
all face when the calendar rolls over to the year 2000.
PEOPLE ARE JUST NOT GETTING IT.
This single issue alone has the capacity to destroy the world economy
and send everyone into chaos.
Consider this, as the time approaches most people and companies are
taking this issue lightly, but at the last minuet they will realize the
magnitude of the problem and began scrambling to over come its affect.
That will not be possible.
As it stands now we are virtually out of time to respond to the potential
crisis. Let alone be able to respond in the last minuets.
My personal opinion is, to ensure that I have hard copy record of all
pertinent information about me and my household. That will include
removing all finances from banking institution. But just imagine everyone
at the last minuet recognizing the potential disaster and moving to
accomplish the same objectives that I mention earlier. The rush to the
banks alone will be enough to bring down the U.S. economy. And I would
speculate that that same reaction will occur around the world. Resulting
in a world economic crisis.
So how serious is the year 2000 or the Millennium bug?
Finally consider this:
No one is really certain about the effects this will have on a program,
especially when your consider that programs often times talk to other
programs. The way in which one program utilizes date time stamps
generally differ between applications. And in almost all cases they
depend upon the CMOS in the computer to provide that information. Some
programs use only a 2 digit for the year indicator, other programs use 4
digits. How will you be able to determine which application will talk to 2 or
4 digit bearing program? How will the program respond?
Automation of application alone has become literally untraceable.

These are the things that I am seeing as I continue to research this issue.
See ya when ya get here to dal

chau