From: Hal (hal@rain.org)
Date: Tue May 05 1998 - 12:18:29 MDT
Harvey Newstrom, <harv@gate.net>, writes:
> The Australian Sun-Herald reports that tests for the year 2000 bug have
> found many flaws.
>
> One flaw would have released all chemicals stores into the Coffs
> Harbour's water supply because of data confusion thinking that all the
> chemical doses were due immediately. The chemicals in the water would
> have rendered the public municipalities tap water poisonous.
Discussion of this on comp.software.year-2000 has suggested that this
is not quite right. Someone called up a local official and was told
that this was a speculation about kinds of failures which might occur,
not the actual result of a Y2K simulation. However apparently there
has been no actual retraction by the newspaper. The topic is still
under active discussion there so more information may be forthcoming.
Hal
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