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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F8F8F8" ><div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">Thank you Rich. I worked on Y2K in the 1998-2000 period for two large city governments in the mid-west and mountain west. We found defilbrillators that would have reverted to calibration mode during their first use in 2000 -- nasty for the first patient. Hundreds of buildings that would have put the doors and elevators into weekend mode on the wrong days, stuff like that. I found the problem with Y2K was that *many* managers used it as an excuse to spend lots of bucks for goodies they wanted that were not Y2K problems. I saw a lot of new computers where a software patch was all they needed for the old ones, for example.<br />--</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">J. Gary Bender, WS5N</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;">Fence Lake, New Mexico USA</SPAN></div>
<div><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /><br />On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:40:04 -0500, Rich Mulvey wrote:<br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> Mark Fellhauer wrote:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> At 04:40 PM 2/3/2007, Stephen H. Smith wrote:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> Ever since Windows 95, Microsoft Windows has been able to</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> automatically adjust the computer system clock for daylight</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> time each spring and fall.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> Effective this year, U.S. Daylight Time will start 3 weeks</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> earlier (1st week of March instead of beginning of April), . As</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> a result, the automatic time change feature in Windows won't</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> happen until 3 weeks after the fact. As a result, files will</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> be time-stamped with an error of one hour for three weeks or</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:purple;">>>> more.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> Let us not forget about all the embedded devices that</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> automatically adjust for DST. I predict that when this change</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> happens elevators will plunge passengers to their deaths,</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> airplanes will fall from the sky, supertankers will run aground</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> and explode, phone, TV, and banking networks will collapse, and</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> people will riot. On the morning of Sunday, March 11, 2007 The</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> worlds largest cities will be in flames and humanity as we know</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> it will end.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> At least that's what the "experts" told us about the Y2K bug. I</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> wonder if those are the same experts who are now warning us about</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>> global warming?</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> Not to rain on your parade too much, but the reason why Y2K turned</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> out to be a non-event was because the experts were right, and</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> millions of man-hours were expended on fixing the problems. If</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> they hadn't, I can guarantee with personal knowledge that a few</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> million customers of some rather large financial institutions would</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> have had some extraordinarily unpleasant surprises in the weeks and</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> months coming up to Y2K. Afterwards, they would *really* have had</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> some bad days, unless they had large sums of money hidden in their</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> mattresses.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> It always astounds me how many people point to Y2K as an example of</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> "experts blowing things out of proportion because nothing happened"</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> - when the reason that nothing significant happened was because a</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> huge legitimate problem was recognized, identified, and fixed in</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> time. I can't speak to the effect on other industries, but I can</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> guarantee that people would have noticed when all of their</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> retirement plan money and other savings magically disappeared.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> - Rich</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> _______________________________________________</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> aprssig mailing list</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> aprssig@lists.tapr.org</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;color:navy;">> <a href="https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size:9pt;"><br /><br /></SPAN></div>
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