Please provide info on actual y2k occurances of Jan. 1, 1999. I would expect reports of problems starting Jan1, 1999 to support view of many who have predicted globlal disaster. There should be some proof now. Where is it?

-- Anonymous, January 03, 1999

Answers

No, the lights didn't go out on January 1, 1999. I'm not sure why you would have expected significant failures on 01/01/1999, and I don't think anyone in this forum was predicting major problems going into 1999.

That being said, there have been some failures during the 1998-1999 transition, and I'm sure we'll hear of more as folks get back to work in the coming few days. See this thread:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000Lkb

-- Anonymous, January 03, 1999

This is a great forum Rick, I've learned a lot. The electricity did go out here in our area of Tyler Texas. TU Electric called it a lock-out. Probably not Y2K related, but talk about surreal, it happened here 2 minutes after midnight and lasted as much as an hour and a half at our friends house, just ten minutes at my house. Anyway, my children don't make fun of me any more for wanting to prepare for possible outages anymore!! LOL!!!1

-- Anonymous, January 04, 1999

1/06/99 from the Clarion Ledger (Jackson, MS) the article reads: "Y2K gives headache to Tax Commission. The state Tax Commission solved its Year 2000 computer problem, but caused about 15,000 Hinds County residents and an unknown number of others statewide to receive auto tag renewal notices with a 2001 expiration date. Instead of the correct date of 01/99 for this month's renewal notices, the notices have 01/01, meaning January 2001, Hinds County Tax Collector L. Glynn Pepper said. "When we did our cleanup for Y2000, it created the problem,...."

-- Anonymous, January 06, 1999

The problem with Jan 1999 Y2k issues is that they are not "show stoppers" due to the dates still being managable in other ways. For instance, the company I consult for had 3- 99 failures, but you will not hear about them. Many companies across the country are going to have the same types of difficulties, but they will be able to work around them and will not make them public. When 2000 hits work arounds will cease.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 1999

"The Y2K Bug Begins to Bite" by Mark Warbis, Associated Press, Boise, Idaho - "...Cougar Mountain Software Inc. of Boise rushed the newest version of its Act Plus accounting program to Lynn Electric on Thursday after the small Bluefield, W. Va., company tried to close its 1998 payroll. It was using 3 l/2 year-old software unable to translate dates that included the year 2000. 'All the documents reverted to 1944', Cougar Mountain spokesman Dave Lakhani said, 'They were unable to process their payroll and had to order the update to correct the problem.'"

-- Anonymous, January 07, 1999