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Leap Day is mostly glitch-free

Wednesday  March 1 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

A computer at the Georgia Department of Transportation considered Tuesday to be in 1900, but otherwise it proved to be a dull day statewide as computer technicians watched for glitches related to Leap Day.

The DOT computer, which operates a software program designed specifically for the department, did not malfunction and caused no work problems, said Mike Hale, Georgia's chief information officer and head of Y2K preparations.

''It was very easy to work around and very easy to fix,'' he said.

A computer server at the Department of Veterans Services did not work correctly Tuesday, but technicians said that problem was related to maintenance work performed Monday and not to the leap year.

This year was more troublesome for computers because it is an exception to an exception. Normally, years that end in ''00'' are not leap years, but 2000 is because it is divisible by 400.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency and Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks Inc. said they had no computer problems reported Tuesday.

Officials at Atlanta-based Southern Co. ''had a scaled-down version of our New Year's Eve monitoring'' but found nothing amiss in its routine utility operations, said company spokeswoman Nathalie Hartz.

The watch began Monday in Georgia as the date turned to Tuesday at a Southern plant in the Philippines.

''We didn't have any problems,'' Hartz said.

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-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), March 01, 2000