Compliant certification was wrong!

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My husband uses a program called "Easy Data" for client management in his Financial Consulting practice. He has on file, a letter of compliance from the company supporting the program. As he began to use the program to compute his quarterly billing this morning, he noticed all the the weekend transactions came in with the date of 2099 as the year! No patch or fix as of yet, will be delaying our billing!

-- Leslie (elcee5@aol.com), January 03, 2000

Answers

This is one of those "death by 10,000 paper cuts" that will measure the true impact of Y2k problems.

-- fatanddumb (fatdumb@nd.happy), January 03, 2000.

Leslie... it will be fine. The Pollys say so.

Many who don't run a small business can't comprehend the kinds of problems that this can cause. Especially those of us who rely heavily on software for billing. It's always hand to mouth with not much in between.

Best of luck Leslie. I wish you and your husband well and hope you have preps to tide you through.

To those who just can't GI (even those who thought they did before and called themselves GI) This is EXACTLY why I prepped. I AM A SMALL BUSINESS THAT RELIES ON OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES.

Mike (who is getting militant)

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), January 03, 2000.


Now I know this is obvious but.....did you check to date on the computer? Is it right? If you reset it does everything work?

Just covering the bases.

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), January 03, 2000.


Had the same problem at work today. The cause -- lazy data entry personnel does not want to enter four digit year entering two digits instead. Software is compliant. Here is the solution -- when you backdate your transactions enter 1999 instead of 99.

-- Brooklyn (MSIS@cyberdude.com), January 03, 2000.

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