Bunch of 9's

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So what happened with the 9/9/99 thing? If the apparent smoothness of today's events are any harbinger, we might not be in for such a bad ride afterall.

I'd love to hear some perspective on this.

-- Billy Joe BillyBob (JAMF@aol.com), September 10, 1999

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"Yes Captain, we have made it through the Nine's Nebula. Next stop the governmental fiscal 2000 start galaxy."

"Shields down, Steady as she goes, Ensign..."

watchin' the stars...

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), September 10, 1999.


Don't get too excited (although I'm by no way a doomer), the 9/9/99 lie is not related to Y2K issues. FYI anyone that told you 9/9/99 would be a problem should be totally discredited as someone that meerly spreads false rumors.

Why? well there never was a 9/9/99 problem (not that anyone on this site would listen to me). Because yesterday's date was NOT 9999 it was 090999 (stored as a string) or 90999 (stored as a integer). The only way it could have cased a problem was if the application stored it as 3 separate string fields ("9", "9", "99") and then those fields were cancantiated into one 9999 and then that field was converted to the correct data type.

BTW although the 9/9/99 error was totally false, it does not mean the Y2K one is.....

-- Wayne (wayne@tellme.com), September 10, 1999.


http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/6084

Gary North ... the great y2k documenter got an E-mail from 1 guy who tells of 3 things happening.

A company who has their system crash on midnight of 9/9/99 has warm offices in the morning where their programmers can quickly diagnose the problem. The crash was probably caused by either a single entry (or at least a single type of entry) so it is no wonder that they will have it fixed by noon or late in the day.

Why should such a company make a press release that they had a 9/9/99 glitch? Why should they even tell employees? Did companies spend billions to search for 9/9/99 glitches?

Thom

-- Thom Gilligan (thomgill@eznet.net), September 11, 1999.


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