OK, not actually Y2K, just "stupid date handling". I wondered, since 20 years ago meters didn't take cards!
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 11:38 AM Barkow, Eileen <ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov> wrote: > Would you believe that there is still fallout from Y2K. NYC parking meters > could not accept credit cards because of it. > > > > > https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/01/03/software-glitch-knocks-out-credit-card-payments-at-nyc-parking-meter > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Friday, January 3, 2020 11:26 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [External] Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... > > > > There were date dependencies in a lot of unexpected places, although some > of them were of minor importance. There was no more reason to believe that > everything was under control than there was to believe in the inevitability > of disaster. Hidden among the hype were some plausible concerns. Frankly, > we lucked out. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > > https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=02%7C01%7Cebarkow%40doitt.nyc.gov%7C668247219a474d4f929208d79069ad4c%7C73d61799c28440228d4154cc4f1929ef%7C0%7C0%7C637136655989197748&sdata=fffL9bJBCNMoJYgF%2F2NSwhyJc29Tajp370CzvdEm%2Bmk%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto: > IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>> on behalf of Pommier, Rex < > rpomm...@sfgmembers.com<mailto:rpomm...@sfgmembers.com>> > > Sent: Friday, January 3, 2020 11:06 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > Subject: Re: [External] Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... > > > > Yeah, there was a lot of hype and panic among the uninitiated/unaware. I > won't mention the place, but the company I was working for leading up to > Y2K required us to test coax-to-parallel protocol convertors that were > running our printers off 3174 controllers. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto: > IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>> On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing > > Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:54 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > Subject: [External] Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... > > > > Y2K concerns for a 3174 make no sense to anyone who has ever customized > one. There is no place while configuring a 3174 where you tell it local > date-time and no hardware support to sync it with any external time > source. So if it does have any kind of internal time awareness, there is > zero reason to expect it to be synced with anything related to actual > date-time and no reason it would choose to fail at a real world > > 1999/2000 year boundary it can't possibly know is happening. > > Joel C Ewing > > > > On 1/2/20 8:16 PM, Bill Dodge wrote: > > > We had users who were dependent on a 3174's connectivity that wanted us > to verify that it was Y2K compatibe. Totally in panic mode so several of > us assembled around the 3174s and shouted "Happy New Year". They never > blinked. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Bill Dodge > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 00:07:18 +0000, "Schuffenhauer, Mark" < > mschu...@tcfbank.com<mailto:mschu...@tcfbank.com>> wrote: > > > > > > I remember all the hype, it really freaked people out. I know people who > quit work, liquidated everything and went off grid. Many non-technical > people were very concerned it was the end. Minor non-y2k issues during the > first few days were blown out of proportion. Probably because of the scare > tactics and uncertainty the contracting companies used to get y2k work. > > > > > > One wonders how much companies paid for y2k work that wasn't needed. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Dodge > > > Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:55 PM > > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > > Subject: Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... > > > > > > External Email > > > > > > I was consulting at Arlington County, Virginia County Government. My > whole family was at a friend's house as was our tradition but I had to > report to the IT Department by 11:30 PM even though I had been running a > virtual machine whose date had been set to cross the threshold at least 10 > times. We were gone by 12:15. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Bill Dodge > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:19:52 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > > > > > > My oldest was just hitting 5 and couldn't reach the breaker box. But I > was at work anyway. I'm pretty sure everybody showed up, including the IT > dept head. There was basically nothing to do. Maybe about 15 minutes after > midnight I was looking at a console with a couple of managers behind me and > I said "Uh oh", and wow... they were all over me looking for any kind of > problem, probably just to have something to report. I think it was a date > formatted wrong in a WTO or similar - nothing more. That might have been > the extent of the Y2K problems I remember seeing. > > > > > > On 1/2/2020 2:52 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: > > >> Hmm. I sent the post below, doesn't appear to have ever showed up, so > retrying! > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> From: Phil Smith III > > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:27 PM > > >> To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu<mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu> > > >> Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>> Has it been 20 years since Y2K?? sometimes it seems like last year, > other times seems like another lifetime ..... > > >> > > >> > > >> How many of us had smartass kids hanging out in the basement who, at > 12:00:01, threw the main breaker? I know I did! > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Like many of you, I was on call that night, took the 2AM-10AM shift (at > Sterling Software). Around 5AM when it was clear nothing was happening, we > got sent home. I did get a nice sweatshirt out of it. > > >> > > >> > > ... > > > > -- > > Joel C. 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