© J R Stockton, ≥ 2009-01-15
Links within this site :-
References to specific points can be found in
Year 2000 Page, Part 1 ff.
For further information
(Note : I generally check out URLs before listing them, and
occasionally thereafter. Before October 1998, pages requiring me to
turn on Images (to find or to read), and frames-only sites, were not
likely to be considered for inclusion.) :-
2006-11-16, 2007-01-21 : Many links no longer work; I have
removed or disabled the dead ones.
| Rollover monitoring sites
include these and links therefrom |
|---|
http://www.millennium-centre.gov.uk/
http://www.millennium-centre.gov.uk/links.htm |
| http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/millennium/blueroom.htm |
| http://www.iy2kcc.org/ |
| http://www.ironic.com/y2k/now.html |
| http://www.y2k.govt.nz/media/index.html |
| http://www.y2kaustralia.gov.au/ |
|
Some Y2k Newsgroups
- alt.talk.year2000 - Alt group.
- comp.risks -
Risks Digest, weeklyish, excellent :
(more).
Note: For this newsgroup, propagation to Demon is unreliable.
- comp.software.year-2000
(started 1996-11-06) -
The original Y2k Usenet expert newsgroup, now sadly degenerate -
"Curate's Egg" - Charter,
FAQ
News:c.s.y2k is infested with US survivalists,
politicians, doom-and-disaster merchants, and general incompetents;
therefore I employ intensive killrules in it. Alas, that inevitably
means that I may miss some useful material, unless it is posted or
quoted by one of the few I trust.
- comp.software.year-2000.tech
- Moderated technical Y2k Usenet newsgroup - vote passed 241:14,
group appeared ~1998-10-13.
2000-08-20 : the moderation of news:comp.software.year-2000.tech
appears to have died.
- git.year2000 - GIT - not recommended.
-
gov.topic.info.systems.year2000 - Government - not HMG.
- ibm.globenet.year2000.cforum
- the group appears to receive no posts.
- japan.comp.y2k - in Japanese? -
the group appears to receive only a "usage" post.
- microsoft.public.year2000 -
Microsoft.
- uk.tech.y2k -
Focused UK technical group, now removed :-
FAQS
- Cinderella :-
- Y2k Cinderella Project Mini FAQ:
the most current version of the "Y2k: Year 2000 Mini FAQ" resides at:
USA Mirror
Site.
- News:comp.software.year-2000's new Smallish FAQ, written by
Pam Hystad.
- My own Mini-FAQ, now posted to
uty2k weekly.
Many sites can be found by an AltaVista search for
link:www.merlyn.demon.co.uk -Links2Go; the -Links2Go
eliminated other superfluities.
The criterion might be improved for Y2k; it finds all my topics.
- UK :-
- Government :-
- Action 2000 - HMG Y2k :-
- Taskforce 2000.
- The British Standard Public Document DISC PD2000-1:1998 is said
to be used widely as the de facto UK compliance standard.
Try at
BSI
- "Bug Busters" - IT NTO; and try
TECs in England and Wales.
- Institutional :-
- Alistair Cooke - Letter from America
No.2583 -
index.
- IEE (IEE + IIE → IET in 2006?) :-
- IEE
→ embedded systems - good.
- IEE
embedded systems Fault Casebook.
- IEE
→ Y2k links page.
- Lloyd's.
- Companies :-
- Media :-
- Computer Weekly has
an archive of the paper since 1995 - including much Y2k. (untested)
- Insider (Scotland) -
not yet ready, 1998-07-12.
- Others :-
- British web site with
a European focus and perspective on Y2k. (20090115 ?)
- UK Legal
site - Tarlo-Lyons Solicitors.
- Personal :-
- Commonwealth :-
- Australia :-
- Canada :-
- New Zealand ? :-
- Europe :-
- International :-
- UN Resolution
- International Y2k Cooperation Center -
PH 1999-04-29: "This new (non-profit) organization, established under
the auspices of the UN and funded by the World Bank, has a web site.
- U.S.A. :-
- US Government :-
- US Institutions :-
- US Computer Industry :-
- Domtools Consulting,
(Phoenix, Arizona) - "Year 2000 Technical Solutions",
includes "Things to Check on Unix".
- IBM Y2k
site.
- Mardon Century Experts, Inc. (Don Fowler)
"99" date defect reports
(site from maybe 1999-01-10?) ???
- PC Magazine :
"
Testing Your PC Hardware" - feature.
- Phoenix
Technologies Ltd.
- US Personal :-
- US Misc :-
- Y2k Incidents :-
Posted to News:csy2k by Bill Fahle, 1998-11-02 (for later copies, he has
since recommended a DejaNews search for "Known Failures" & "Fahle") :
Here's a list of URLs that I've compiled that seem to
cover many examples from news reports, etc. :
(some dead ones removed by JRS)
- Domestic Preparedness
(Self-Sufficiency, Social/Business Impact) :-
- Y2K Community Action Network (UK).
- UK Social Preparation, in my
Year 2000 Page, Part 2.
- Y2k for Women (American).
- Other links are requested, but only sane UK ones.
- Software Compliance Statements :-
- Sources of Software - links may be tested, software is not
:-
- http://www.rightime.com/
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/saphena/
- General :-
- As others have listed my pages among their links, an AltaVista citation
search will lead to many more pages.
- Remember also books, magazines and newspapers - BYTE of July 1998,
Computer Weekly,
Computing /
PCW,
including series of 10 "Hands On" starting April 1999, ...
- UK Action 2000 - 0845 601 2000 (contact line).
- Unchecked references :-
- Action 2000 : Hot line Tel 0845 601 2000, Tel 020 7215 2000 ;
G Flower.
- CITU : Tel 020 7238 2029, Fax 020 7238 2006 ;
Ms Edmunds, David Cooke, Ray Simpson.
- DTI : Tel 020 7215 1813, Fax 020 79317194 ;
Ray Brown (Millennium Team), Mark Begbie, Stephen Byers, M Beckett.
- Microsoft UK : Tel 0345 00 2000 ; 2Way@Microsoft-contac.co.uk ;
freephone 0800 028 3372 (DT19990614).
- Science and Technology Committee : Tel 020 7219 0896 ;
Jessica Mulley.
- Fiction : A C Clarke, The Ghost of the Grand Banks (1990), Chap. 4.
- Critical and Significant Dates -
Y2k, computing, general.
- Date and Time Formats -
ISO Standard 8601 - Representation of Dates and Times
- Introductory writeup on Y2k written
for JDB - occasional minor updates occur.
- UK Mini-FAQ, now in news:uk.tech.y2k.
- HUNTTEST.ZIP contains
zero-length files, dated 1980, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2061, 2093, 2107, etc.,
for test purposes.
- JavaScript Date and Time Introduction
ff.
- DOS Programs directory
(index) includes :-
- DOSSTAMP.EXE
will give a file any conceivable datestamp.
- CLOKCHEK (ZIP
- if the difference between the current DateTime and
the DateTime when it was last run is not plausible, it invites correction;
try it in AUTOEXEC.BAT. As well as protecting against the Y2k BIOS error,
it protects against other date errors including those due to battery
failure. Needs more testing!
- DATECHEK.BAT, which
from MS-DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT will test and correct for a year in the Eighties.
- DATEPROX.PAS Pascal date-handling
routines : fast, independent of others, direct from fundamentals, with a
test/use harness in MJD_DATE.PAS.
- BAT_DATE.ZIP includes *.PAS, *.EXE;
for use in batch files to do numeric date conversions between CMJD,
YYYY DDD, YYYY MM DD, D NN YYYY.
- NOWMINUS.ZIP includes *.PAS, *.EXE;
for use in batch files; supersedes BAT_DATE, does date arithmetic,
environment I/O.
- ENVICALC.ZIP includes *.PAS, *.EXE;
for use in batch files; RPN calculator, environment I/O.
- LONGCALC.PAS Pascal RPN
vast-integer-handling calculator; has functions #sd & #ds to
convert seconds to/from Proleptic Gregorian Astronomical
dates; function #uf uses these to add seconds to the UNIX base date
1970-01-01, so that "2 N dec pow #uf" can give the relevant
signed N-bit 'time_t' rollover date for N up to at least 2048
- CVT_ROME.PAS Pascal program with
routines to convert between ordinary numbers and Roman Numerals
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