9-9-99 and All is Well
from the unless-you-can't-read-this dept
As most people thought, the 9-9-99 date didn’t turn off the world’s power supplies, and we’re all still alive and well. It seems there were basically no problems. So, maybe this will lure people into a false sense of security for Y2K.
Comments on “9-9-99 and All is Well”
9-9-99
This whole thing is extremely silly since the old programs that would theoretically be succeptible tended to use fixed field. Therefore, 9-9-99 is almost always represented as 09-09-99.
Don't Under Estimate Your Own Ignorance
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:43:03 +0100 (GMT)
From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk
Subject: 9/9/99
RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 27 August 1999 Volume 20 : Issue 55
According to a report in one of the UK Sunday papers two real occurrences of
the fabled 9/9/99 bug have been found, one in a non-critical medical
application. It would be interesting to have more information about this as
I have always thought that the 9/9/99 bug sounded like press scaremongering
rather than something that would really arise.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay
9-9-99
The reason that 9-9-99 didn’t do any thing is because non-techies do not realise that 9-9-99 is a 6(SIX) digit field (i.e. 09-09-99) and NO-ONE uses this as a marker (unlike 999999!). DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING WRITTEN BY NON-TECHIE JOURNALISTS