Re: No Y2k Bug

[Chris Parnell <chris@infinisource.com>]

Thanks for reminding us this is a rail related  ng

Peter McCallum wrote:

> No problems?
> Tranz Rail's RES000 rail and ferry booking system failed for several hours
> this morning. Don't know if it was Y2K or not but frustrating for their
> booking agents.
>
> When the Telecom contractor checked their payphone on our premises this moring
> it was the seventh one (by 11.00am) he had found that was incorrectly
> programmed for the year 2000. (Only installed 10 days ago.)
>
> )
> 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.
> >
> >My own four-year-old Windows 95 computer rolled over perfectly at
> >midnight to January 1 2000 without a hitch. And the lights stayed on all
> >over New Zealand. There has not been one problem anywhere. (Apart from
> >the bloody rain pissing down and spoiling our outdoor fun).
> >
> >I predict it will be the same no-hitch in Australia in two hours and the
> >same in Europe and then North America after that. So have a great
> >weekend.
> >
> >David McLoughlin
> >Auckland New Zealand