Source: C|Net & The Register.
So the millennium bug has finally stroke!
The bug was discovered when none of Norwegian State Railway's new 16 airport-express trains or 13 high-speed, long-distance Signatur trains would start early Sunday morning. |
Computers aboard the trains apparently did not recognize the date, something not anticipated by experts who checked the systems thoroughly last year in anticipation of problems feared worldwide when clocks rolled to Jan. 1, 2000, a spokesman said.
"We didn't think of trying out the date 31/12/00," said Ronny Solberg of Adtranz, the German producer of the new trains.
Sunday's problem was quickly solved on a temporary basis by resetting the computers to Dec. 1, 2000, and the trains started upon ignition.
"Now we have one month to find out what went wrong so we can fix the problem for good," Solberg was quoted as saying by the daily newspaper Dagbladet.
Smart move Anyone else got some problems?
