How are you prepping for possible power, water etc. outages on March 1?

Will this be a "three-day storm" or will this be total collapse of the Infrastructure?

-- (sal232@aol.com), February 23, 2000

Answers

I don't see Feb. 29 affecting embedded systems as there's no negative value result from subtracting dates in Feb. or March 2000. Hence I don't anticipate any infrastructure problems.

It would more likely be possible that financial/accounting information systems might have difficulties if they incorrectly rolled from 2/28 to 3/1. It might affect interest calculations. Also logging of events might have the wrong dates. But I don't anticipate any computer "crashes" because of this.

So you might want to check your bills, interest credits, etc. But don't anticipate infrastructure issues.

-- slza (slzattas@erols.com), February 23, 2000.

in a word, "no." It wont' even be a "three day storm." It won't be noticable.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), February 23, 2000.

Are you kidding? Have you learned nothing from the y2k fiasco?

I'm eating my preps. Gonna take me a long, long time to get thru them.

-- not worried (anymore@ever.atall), February 23, 2000.

It's Sadie Hawkins Day, so I think that eligible bachelors may consider their lives to be ruined as of that day.

-- Looking (for@Mr.Right), February 23, 2000.

End of the world? No. (Waiting on the NASDAQ for that. (grin))

But no Leap Year problems at all? Not so fast. Recall that pesky New Zealand aluminum smelter in 1996. Another squirrel (maybe should say another "bush-tailed possum")? See brief discussion of and references to the NZ smelter shutdown in a TB2000 thread, somewhere in the archive section from earlier this month.

Remember that the NZ smelter computers in 1996 froze at the end of the year (apparently couldn't handle the unexpected 366th day), NOT on Feb 29. Draw your own conclusions.

--Andre in southcentral Pennsylvania

-- Andre Weltman (72320.1066@compuserve.com), February 23, 2000.

Andre,
(maybe should say another "bush-tailed possum")?
Hey, I wasn't anywhere near New Zealand in '96.(grin)

-- Possible Impact (posim@hotmail.com), February 23, 2000.

None of the above! If anything, probably small, hidden things in the business community. At worst, you might see some messed up dates on your credit card receipts.

I'm prepped, but not because of 2/29/2000.

-- Irving (irvingf@myremarq.com), February 23, 2000.

Y2K IS OVER THICKIE!!!

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), February 24, 2000.

Just FYI--the IP number of the original post is associated with a well-known troll.

-- Sysop (here@to.night), February 24, 2000.

Three answers occur to me to the question as phrased:

1) NO!

2) GET REAL!!

3) Effects will be internalized.

END OF WORLD???? SHEESH!! Even us Doombrooders (TM) have never said THAT fergawdsake!!

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 24, 2000.

Hi Chuck, think he's just winding you up.

-- Sir Richard (Richard.Dale@unum.co.uk), February 24, 2000.

HAHAHA! HOHOHO! HEEHEEHEE! I've seen so many dates come and go and *nothing,* happened, absolutely nothing, that I wouldn't believe it if God, Thor, Allah, Greenspan, Yahweh, Madonna, Gaia, or whomever your personal diety happens be, came in on a low flying cloud, or a ball of fire and said we were going to have problems. This tale just doesn't play well anymore.

Food me once I'm a fool. Fool me twice you're a fool.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), February 24, 2000.