Re: No Y2k Bug

[Richard <richard_snook@primus.com.au>]

Ah..someone who truly understands the nature of the beast...those thinking that the Y2K bug thing is over   you have no
comprehension of its nature or likely effect. Spent the last 2 years as Y2K consultant...all is not obvious...all not
likely to be life threatening...much is likely to be akin to a bad hair day for business.....you take 1000's of little
niggly problems put them in a melting pot and you do indeed have a few thingss to sort out. It will be  a hassle for
many weeks to come...so they rolled over to 01/01/2000 ...big deal ...many systems look to the last "good " in 24
hours...that may not be the case as they rollover to 02/01/2000...just maybe...then lets not forget 28/29 Feb and indeed
01/03/2000.. ooor 01/01/2001 (did they count the days right?)
Y2K is not about one isolated occurence, or one single transition...many businesses have yet to use their systems in
real time with real data.
By all means crack the champers, I have...no one has called yet...yet!! I must have dine something right....like
thousands of other IT people...that "nothing " serious has happened yet is testament to the dedication and reasoning of
many people. Well done
The wise man watches, waits and hopes....and cracks another bottle of champers..sounds good to me...
Happy New Year all. the world wont end....maybe a belch and a hiccough here and there.....should have invested in
Roche...they make Beroccas!!
Peace to all, now countiong down to the real turn of the century!!...if this was the practice run...better stock up on
those B-B-B things!!

2000 cheers >:~)) Richard

David Barts wrote:
> 
> Ron Newman wrote:
> >
> > In article <386c981c@news.iprolink.co.nz>, David McLoughlin
> > <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Just again to let you know from Auckland, the first city where the
> > > computers rolled over, that NOTHING happened. The Y2K Bug is the hoax I
> > > have long claimed.
> >
> > I also think nothing is going to happen, but we should all wait
> > until after midnight GMT to be sure.  Computers run on Greenwich
> > Mean Time, not local time.
> 
> This generalization is useless.  "Computers" run a huge variety of
> operating systems (and embedded applications on those that don't have
> an OS).  A majority, but not all, of computers have real-time clocks.
> Those without clocks cannot have Y2K issues, period.  What time zone
> those with clocks use depends on the OS/embedded app (and in some
> cases the firmware or hardware) that is running the computer.  Some,
> like UNIX and most UNIX-workalike systems use Greenwich time.  Some,
> like most Micro$oft OS's, use local time.  Generally, on systems that
> have clocks in GMT (actually UTC, but that's picking a nit), there
> is a concept of a local timezone and a set of calls that convert the
> system's clock into local time; applications software on these can
> use either UTC or local time depending on what was most convenient
> for the programmer.
> 
> --
>            David W. Barts (davidb@scn.org) / http://www.scn.org/~davidb
>                                Oakland, CA, USA