Y2K Companies Current Database Web sites National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec] http://y2k.nectec.or.th -- A local list of resources and suppliers of solutions and consultants, assembled here in Thailand. The Year 2000 Information Center http://www.year2000.com -- features news, vendor information, Y2K Wire for news stories, good resources. Area 51 http://www.geocities.com/Area 51/Cavern/5541 -- lots and lots of links on the year 2000 problem, including government specific/hardware/software/list by company, and links to Y2K pages from companies like Adobe and Cisco. Excellent place to start. Legal & Management Information on the Year 2000 Computer Problem http://www.y2k.com This site explores the multitude of legal issues related to identifying, controlling and remediating the problem, in addition to the apparent torrent of litigation that will arise if/when the malfunctions begin. Features liability issues, Y2K vendors, articles, links, a search facility. Everthing 2000 http://www.everything2000.com -- features a general look at the new century plus computer-related issues, events, organisations , groups, news and so forth -- nicely done site. Gartner http://www.gartner.com -- Under the search function, type "Year 2000" and see results (you need to register with the site first).

Y2K frequently asked questions (FAQs): What is the year 2000 day-of-the-week problem? Most programs that calculate the day of the week using only the last two digits of the year will get wrong answers for January 1, 2000, and all subsequent dates. This is because the formulas they use implicitly assume that the dates are in the 1900s. January 1, 1900, was a Monday, but January 1, 2000, will be a Saturday. What is the 1999 problem? Many people aware of a related problem that might happen for all computer files created on Sept. 9, 1999? This date (9/9/99) was popular back in the 1980's as an expiration date for (forever) archived data that you wanted to have 'no expiration date'. Is this only a COBOL problem? No. The problem has little to do with the language used. Year 2000 problems have been found in practically every programming language. Could ANY language have prevented the current Y2K problem? No, because Y2K is a management (planning) problem, not a technical OR a languages problem. However there are plenty of Y2K COBOL problems! What is the date-in-key problem? The basic problem is that many systems use a date as part of the key of an indexed file. This becomes a problem if the date has a two-digit year and the application depends on records in the file being in chronological order. Even if processing of the data does not depend on the records being in chronological order, it could result in records being listed in the wrong order in reports or on-screen displays. In 2000 and later, an application that is supposed to show the most recent items at the top, or on the first screen, would instead show 1999 items first. What are the special year 2000 problems about tape archives? How many otherwise permanent archive tapes (or other data storage media) will "expire" in 1999 or 1/1/2000 since "99" or "99/99/99" was used to indicate permanent storage? Does the Apple Macintosh have a year-2000 problem? The MacOS operating system and Apple Macintosh computers do not have problems with the year 2000. All MacOS operating system date and time utilities have correctly handled the year 2000 since the introduction of the Macintosh. On what date will the 21st century begin? The 1st century AD consisted of the years 1 through 100. The 20th century consists of the years 1901 through 2000 and will end Dec. 31, 2000. The 21st century will begin Jan. 1, 2001, according to The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1996 (However, human nature being what it is, most of us will still opt to have that "once-in-a-century" New Year's Eve bash on Dec. 31, 1999). And, not forgetting that the chaos in computer systems all over the world is expected to begin on the morning of January 1, 2000, a full year before the end of the 20th Century and the end of the millennium.) How will we refer to those initial decades? In the past, 1900 - 1909 was called "just after the turn of the century." 1910 - 1919 was called "the teens." 1920 - 1929 was called "the Roaring Twenties." Poll results are in the May-June 1993 issue of the Futurist indicated that 62 percent felt the year 2001 should be pronounced "Two Thousand One", while 18 percent favoured "Two Thousand And One". Another 10 percent each favoured "Twenty-Oh-One" and "Double Ought One." Some 64 percent felt that the years 2000 to 2009 should be called the Two Thousands while 8 percent favoured "The Twenty-Ohs," while 5 percent preferred "The Oh-Ohs" and an equal 5% opted for "The Double Oh's". The Zero's had a 4 percent following, while the other most popular write-in alternatives were "The Aughts," "Oughts" or "Oughties", and "Naughts" or "Naughties". Sixty-nine percent felt the years 2010 to 2019 should be called the Teens, while 10 per cent opted for "The One-and-somethings". Other suggestions were "The One-ies" (4%), while among the suggested alternatives were "The Twen-teens" (also Twe-teens) and "The Tennies"