CONTENTS What is Y2K?  Y2K Overview: What Could Happen Specific Stats and Quotes Y2K: Where Different Countries Stand Y2K: Endtime Perspective Y2K Problems Already Surfacing How to Prepare Checklist for Survival RELATED Endtime News Digest    Hackers may be the biggest threat of the new year    Serious Y2K Problems: 99 years of chemicals released    U.S. Nuclear Power plants not yet Y2K compliant    Y2k worse than anyone thought    US Senate report says Y2K disruptions almost a certainty    Serious Y2K Problems: 99 years of chemicals released    British Fumbling over Y2K leak    Canada's Operation Abacus    "Time Bomb 2000" more... While you're with us check out these sites:    WEB RESOURCES   American Red Cross Y2K         Checklist   Y2K Specialist    CNET: Year 2000 Updates

One third of all major British companies have already experienced a failure directly related to Y2K. more...

No All clear for bugs after Jan 1
Only 10% of all Y2K problem happen on Jan 1st 2000

More Y2k Glitches that have already surfaced
Sewage Leaks, Billing Problems, Budget Problems...

Microsoft has Y2k problem
Microsoft had "1900" dates on it's web site

New Zealand Radar System Crashes
The computers controlling RADAR system over the New Zealand area crashed, and is likely Y2K related.

Y2K bites truckers
Invoices for 1900

Y2K problems in Water Billing
Same as above, and computer security experts.

Already 1 in 3 large British Firms Bitten by Millennium Bug
A third of major companies in the UK have already experienced information technology (IT) problems as a direct result of the Y2K Problem.

A British report said that computers have already been affected by the date-change problem even before the Y2K computer problem hits. It emphasized that most European nations have been more concerned about preparing computers for the Euro than making millennium bug fixes. It listed the following major computer problems that have already happened, and others:

In Holland, motorists with newly issued bank cards with expiry dates of 00 had them rejected at petrol stations.

A Swedish woman received a letter informing her of the various schools on offer when she reached 10. She was, in fact, born in 1890.

A tin of corned beef from Marks & Spencer was rejected on the grounds that the food was 96 years out of date.

A date roll-over check on a power station led to its shutdown within 20 seconds. The fault was traced to a flue stack temperature sensor that was programmed to minimize fluctuations over time, -using the date to make calculations.

A computer clock set to 2000 at Chrysler Motors in America shut down the security system and refused to let staff out.

A sewage treatment plant in America found that in 2000, valve-control systems would have released untreated sewage into the rivers.

At a test of a water filtration plant, the chemical system tried to put 99 years worth of chemicals in the water. more...

During a test in an American nuclear power station, the device that controlled the depth of the fuel rod in the core began a dangerous oscillation. (The Watchman).

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