Arab, foreign experts end meeting on Y2K bug
Regional, Politics, 11/3/1999

Arab and foreign experts on Tuesday wound up a meeting on year 2000 (Y2K) bug emergency plans, with calls for coordination between North African and Middle-East nations to face the bug.

Delegates to the meeting called for prior tests of the studied emergency plans to test their efficiency. They urged the concerned nations to set up national intervention centers before end of November to collect data and decide appropriate measures.

The encounter focused on the Y2K effects in the sectors of health and chemical industry.

January 1, 2000 risks to be a dark Saturday, as the world will wake up on a computer apocalypse that will spare no sector of activity except in the countries that have levelled up their computer systems.

Millions of computers --some of which are central to running financial markets, air-traffic control systems and even elevators in office buildings-- do not distinguish between the year 1900 and the year 2000 because an old programming practice expressed years in two digits.

As the year 2000 gets closer, this "bug" is attracting high-level attention in both government offices and corporate boardrooms around the world.

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