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To: Les H who wrote (68834)	10/8/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Les, >>The lockdowns apparently have already started with many more starting in November (50%). Some of the institutions I consult for or do business with started lockdowns in June and are just fixing problems from weekend testing. They are still finding plenty of problems. <ggg> I got a big charge out of one of the financial institutions in Minneapolis..they lost all the mothers maiden names for verifying passwords in the active system. The only way they could get them back was to print from backup tapes and reentry was done by hand. There are lots of war stories. Joan

To: Les H who wrote (68834)	10/8/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 132070

There is a Feb 29th in 2000. The way I remember is because the Vernal Equinox fell on the 23rd this year, and after 400 years of reckless calendar drift, an extra day is now needed to bring it back where it belongs. What I find amusing is that computer programmers which made a mistake in treating the centuries incorrectly did so by going the extra mile to program the bug in, literally. If they had just ignored the century exception altogether, then they wouldn't have had a problem until March 1st, 2100. Of course, by then the bug would be so entrenched that it would cause the sudden collapse of the entire universe, and the next one, too, in spite of the best efforts of buy-on-the-dippers.