Anyone seen any knock-on effects?greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
Honest question; despite my scepticism, I am still expecting to see problems. But I'm just not seeing any of the "knock on" problems that so many of us expected, i.e. supply chain breakdowns, cascading cross defaults.It looks - looks - as though the problems that are emerging are isolated and quickly remediated.
Early days yet, I know. But I was expecting something before the month end.
Anyone got anything?
-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 19, 2000
I guess on your planet everything runs fine without petroleum?
-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), January 19, 2000.
My experience... A LOT of users rolled the computer clocks back one or more years as a workaround.I got an EKG on a portable machine at the doctor's office and they had to put my age in as one year younger. The tech said that it would otherwise compute the age as age+198 years, and ruin the "norms" for the test.
Got a Y2K problem? Sweep it under the rug and go on. Right.
-- Mike (SeeTheFog@Everywhere.com), January 19, 2000.
"Knock on effects" is a Brit term for a reduction in demand induced by a populace traumatized by some particular event. No trauma, no "knock on effect."
Even so, the Brits expected this to happen, if at all, in the March-April time frame.
Serious answer.
-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It ALL went away almost three weeks ago .com), January 19, 2000.