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What is it? - Will it impact my computer or my company?
You arrive into work - its been a long weekend celebrating the new 'millennium' (which is still, really a year away). Those fireworks are still ringing in your ears, when:
•Alan in Accounts tells you that the outstanding invoices system has gone mad and is spewing paper out demanding invoices that were paid years ago!
•Margaret in Marketing tells you her customer database now shows everyone's age's as having gone negative!
•Pam in Personnel says the payroll has packed up!
Is this some Year 2000 virus?
NO
You just didn't prepare your computer systems for the Year 2000.
•Many computer systems have been built assuming that they will not be existence in the Year 2000. So they just stored the year 1966 as '66', which is fine until '99' BUT then comes '00' and everyone born in 1966 is now minus 66 years old!
•Only 10% of companies are doing anything about it today.
•You need to get every computer and piece of software running on it checked out NOW!!!
•It is estimated that it will take the average company 18 months to check thoroughly. •Computers will have to be upgraded, programs checked and changed; particularly, but not exclusively, older one's. Have every new piece of equipment checked for 2000 compliance.
AND
make sure that any new equipment purchased is "2000 compliant".
IMPORTANT NOTE
Judging by the large number of emails we have received it is apparent that a very large number of people, including computer programmers, are 'confused' about the fact that there are 29 days in February 2000. When you have your systems checked for Year 2000 Compliance please get them to check 29 February 2000 compliance!!!!
A year is leap if and only if it is divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 in which case it should be divisible by 400; which is the case of the year 2000.