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23 August, 1998
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'Millennium Bug' will affect Lankan air passengers on midnight, 1999
by Anjana Gamage
SEVERAL Sri Lankan businessmen and computer users are still cluless to the computer millennium bug that will affect the entire world, in the year 2000, Dr. Gihan Dias, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Moratuwa told the " Sunday Observer".
Almost all the computers are expected to go haywire by 2000.
It will be a big battle for government institutions as well as private companies to beat the clock and fix the software to get the correct datas he said.
Only leading institutions as banks and few other companies are quite aware of the crisis but it will affect mainly medium scale enterprises, Dr. Dias said.
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has appointed a special task force, to look into the matter, he said.
" Many international flights have cancelled their flight arrangements and the public have been informed not to travel on a flight on the night of December 31 night in 1999, computer experts warned.
According to a recent report, Asia will be the first and possibly the least prepared region of the world, to face the millennium bug and its associated computer chaos.