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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5307)	4/6/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (2) of 9818

Ron - When faults occur over Jan 1st, 2000 Whoa! Let's lighten up on this fixation on 1/1/00. There's going to be considerable spread as to when bogus date processing kicks in. Example (http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/Techcorner/DE/de9816.htm)... date look ahead (processing done in October for a January bill) logic can start causing problems before the 1/1/00 witching hour. My money is on 1/1/00 being very quiet. I'm beginning to publicly see (have heard privately for some time) announcements that corporate staffs will be on duty (no vacations) say from December into February. I'm starting to see talk (trial balloons) for public holidays being declared around 1/1/00. I would expect that many mainframe sites already have firm plans to have their machines turned off. FYI... turning a mainframe on & off isn't like rebooting a frozen PC... it takes quite a bit of planning, since they're typically assumed to run around the clock. I firmly believe this fixation on 1/1/00 if highly misplaced. The trouble will come both before & after... beyond 1/1/00 will be touch since a lot of "fixes" will cause people to drag out mucho bubble gum & bailing wire to patch the half-assed repairs made in 1999. - David

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