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To: Captain Jack who wrote (26118)	1/4/1999 1:26:00 AM
From: Joe Bilich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Interesting that you should mention the Euro. Although it is not as much a concern, and therefore get less visibility, here in the U.S., many have speculated that the cost of conversion for the Euro (currency algorithms, as opposed to date algorithms in Y2K) is as big as or bigger than the Y2K problem. It will be interesting to see if we start to see war stories and "fallout" due to improper currency algorithms following on the heels of the Euro's debut. This is another example of the problems associated with "legacy" code and trying to make it do things for which it was not intended. Although the "cost to modify" estimates for the Euro are huge, the nature of the problem (add another currency to routines, which, by nature, have to account for multiple currencies) seems simpler than the Y2K problem. Imho--any rash of incidents or reports of code failures would make more people believers in the seriousness of the Y2K problem.