>Charlie,
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>beg your pardon but
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>>... The Y2K issue ... Millions spent and when nothing happens ...
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>I can not support this.
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>For the first Berlins firefighters run back to the last reserve they have because there system broke down. That means they have patroled the streets with there cars in the hope to see the fire, because the whole computer aided dispatching was not available. In a night where every drunken plays with firecrackers. Was not in the big news, guess why.
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>The second one. We didn't even master the switch this year. The half of the debit cards here are (still) out of order because of an implementation failure in the cards handling the year 2010.

Add to that the bug on Playstation 3 (first edition), which somehow made half of the machine think it's 1st of March, while the rest of it thought it was 29th of February. The advice was "turn them off until tomorrow". They started working later in the evening yesterday, I guess when the midnight line crossed Greenwich (probably uses UTC).

Someone somewhere thought leap years are the even ones which aren't divisible by four... while the rest of the team thought differently.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/21915.cfm