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Re: Y2K failures



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As a funny aside, knowing nothing about whether their data feed is Y2K
compliant, BMI's billing system choked on my credit card's expiration date.
Even though they entered 01 for the year as they should, it sent something
else to the credit card company. The sales rep entered 00 just for grins, and
it accepted!

In a message dated 98-09-16 15:50:39 EDT, jimo@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

> That leaves live Y2K data coming from a data feed, as the other
>  obvious test.  Anyone know of any data vendors thinking of participating
>  in some sort of live test like that?  The NYSE, or somebody, 
>  ran some sort of publicized test a few months back.  Seems like
>  it'd be a real interesting gesture for one of the feeds to start
>  broadcasting Y2K data for some made-up test contract, rather
>  than waiting for sparse ticks from the real ones.  Just a thought.
>