(Just for the record. Filed this in "Miscellaneous" category. Problems in states other than Florida are already mentioned in other Y2k articles on this board)

There still could be some Y2K bugs to be worked out

By Richard Burnett of The Sentinel Staff

Published in The Orlando Sentinel on January 02, 2000

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The most serious glitch surfaced in ground-support equipment at airports in Orlando, Tampa, Denver, St. Louis and Chicago.

Wind-shear alert systems at the airports flashed an error message Friday at 7 p.m. when the air-traffic control system switched to year 2000 in Greenwich Mean Time.

The systems themselves continued to operate, but workers took two hours to fix the error message on the display screens, said Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Air traffic was not affected because skies were clear and the wind-shear system was not needed, she said.

Among the other scattered goof-ups:

The computer-aided-dispatch system at the Florida Highway Patrol's Orlando headquarters went down from midnight Friday until almost 5 a.m. Saturday while workers had to reprogram it to print reports in the year 2000. Officials said the system has to be date-adjusted at the turn of every year.

NASA reported a brief glitch in a ground-based computer that helps operate an atmospheric-research satellite.

In Jacksonville, two minor computer problems were attributed to the Y2K bug. A fire department computer registered the date 2100, and a Duval County Jail computer refused to scan prisoner names into its database.

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Michael Cabbage, David Cox, Ann Givens, Sherri M. Owens, Maria T. Padilla, Gwyneth K. Shaw, Jack Snyder and Susan G. Strother contributed to this report.

Posted Jan 1 2000 8:09PM

http://orlandosentinel.com/automagic/news/2000-01-02/NWSY2KCASH02010200.htm

-- Lee Maloney (leemaloney@hotmail.com), February 02, 2000