US military conducts Y2K exercise
TOKYO, Sept. 25 (UPI) - The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet conducted an amphibious landing exercise on the beaches of Okinawa before dawn today without any major hitches after moving the clocks on nine participating vessels forward to Jan. 1, 2000 Thursday.
More than 5,000 personnel, including the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit stationed in Okinawa, successfully guided aegis cruisers and destroyers based in Yokosuka, Japan ...
"All of the Y2K-related systems went flawlessly with the landing," said Capt. Manuel Malagon ...
Immediately following the mock millennium transition, an SMQ-11 weather antennae was unable to receive weather data from a satellite for a couple of hours, the equivalent of one pass of the satellite over the earth ...
A local area server also experienced a minor glitch, reading "19A1" instead of 2000 when the clocks were moved forward. Capt. Malagon said the Navy will investigate the problem and predicted that it will require a change in software for the system.
More than 94 systems on the ships and other hardware were evaluated, including communications equipment. Seventeen computer systems on vessels comprising the 7th Fleet will be replaced in NOVEMBER, Capt. Malagon said.
Most of the Navy's computer systems are software upgradable and did not need to be replaced, he said [...]
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CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN: How can they say that "All of the Y2K-related systems went flawlessly" ... when 17 computer systems, which are not Y2K compliant, won't even be replaced until November?
Cheryl
97 Days until 2000 |
