• chemical extracting machines in the Defence
  Ministry's laboratory had shown the wrong date
  but had otherwise functioned as usual.

• Windows software used by the Justice Ministry
  displayed the date as Feb 29, 1990

• software program written by a private firm for
  the ministry had malfunctioned

• In Tokyo, weather monitoring devices
  malfunctioned, hundreds of ATMs shut down

• a computer system at a nuclear plant seized
  up yesterday as the leap year bug affected
  computers across Japan

• Glitches hit early yesterday at 43 of the
  government weather agency's 1,300 ground
  monitoring devices across Japan

• The malfunctions-in which Feb 29 was
  mistaken for March 1-occurred in computers
  in southwestern Japan that used old software

• About 1,200 of about 25,000 ATMs at post
  offices throughout Japan shut down temporarily

• The trouble at Monju plant, 350km west
  of Tokyo, was leap year-related but did not
  affect operations

Bangkok Post

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), March 01, 2000

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-- Topper (Byp@ssing.the.spam), March 01, 2000.