The Year 2000 Information Center

Site:
http://arganet.tenagra.com/cgi-bin/clock.cgi

Category:
The Internet

Review (in 1996):

The arrival of the millennium is expected to give fits to many computers and software programs, as the "chickens come home to roost" for short-sighted programmers who calculated years based on two digits instead of four.

Many people expect problems with the obvious software, like spreadsheet applications or payroll databases, but the Information Center wants everyone to know the trouble will be deeper than that. Using software that simulates the turn of the year 1999, they've found that few system-level programs "know" that the year 2000 is a leap year (and hey, probably 85 percent of data processing officials don't know this, either). And consider financial projection software that gives estimates for sales five years in the future: it's already in trouble!

This is good reading for gurus, futurists, and accountants.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.