I looked for prior qwestions on this but I might have missed the

answer. Please tell me where to look if this has been discussed.

Are there any problems with the Jo-Anne effect in regard to the

operation of the nuclear power plants? I realise that most areas of concern will be with the embedded chips but we are only a couple of weeks away from other interesting happenings. Hopefully this will not be an issue in this industry. Thanks.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 1998

Answers

Mike, all I know is that the NERC contingency plan draft lists various important Y2K system dates in a prioritized order from 1 to 3, with 3 being the lowest level of concern. The Dec.31, 1998 to Jan.1, 1999 dates are in level three.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 1998

Thier are two problems with the date 1/1/99. I will try to simplify them here. I do not know at what level you understand "technical-ese". The first is some programmers when using the value 9999 as a special code (IE end of file etc.) got lazy and only told the application to look at the last 2 digits of the date field to determine if this code was present. The second problem is their are alot of accounting and other applications that do forward forecasting a year in advance as well as contract arrangements made that extend more than 12 months into the future (I have seen one of these failures where I am working), these will begin using 2000 dates to some degreee on 1/1/99. That is why it is on the concerns list. Hope that helps give you a general idea.

-- Anonymous, December 18, 1998