Gil, Personally, I think that any "work around" is absurd.
Somebody really screwed up, and a lot of people are being inconvenienced. What I am afraid of is exactly the kind of scenario you suggested. A sloppy work-around that results in another problem several years down the road. John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: y2k10 problem with credit cards in Germany On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:32:45 -0500, John P. Baker wrote: >The ZKA have announced that the problem has been resolved with all Girocards >(formerly EC-card) and German cash machines. The problem was caused by a >certain type of chip used in production of the cards which contained a >software error in the processing of the year 2010. The problem is being >fixed by reconfiguring ATMs and point of sale terminals to work around this >software error in the cards. > "Work around". So if the chip says "2016", the ATM will assume it means "2010". What happens 6 years from now? Aren't workarounds fun? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
