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To: John Mansfield who wrote ()	1/16/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) of 65

'A snippet from RISK DIGEST 20.16 (contributor's e-mail address omitted for obvious resons) -- begin excerpt: -- Subject: Y2K in Swiss hospitals I heard about this from an informant, took quite some searching to find the little notice hiding on the pages in the NZZ (Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 7 Jan 1999) usually reserved for reporting celebrity divorces, plane crashes and natural disasters. An on-the-fly translation: The hospitals in the canton Waadt spent the 1st and 2nd of January 1999 fighting with the computer problems that are expected for the year 2000. Except for the University Hospital in Lausanne, the computer systems for admitting patients in all of the hospitals of the canton were down for 36 hours. Specialists were able to fix the problem, according to a spokeswomen for the hospitals in the newspaper "24 Heures" (24 hours) on Wednesday. The reason for the system crash is the fact that it was programmed to compare something with the date a year in the future. This was programmed in 6 digits as "01.01.00". The system interpreted this as 1 Jan 1900. Source: Year-2000 computer problem in Waadtlaender hospitals Lausanne, archiv.nzz.ch Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin FB Informatik, 13353 Berlin, Germany tfh-berlin.de -- end of excerpt -- Hendrik (from c.s.y2k)

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