This one isn’t anything grand-scale, but only a mild annoyance…I was in a local book store the other day, and attempted to purchase a book with my Mastercard (which, by the way, has an expiry date of 08/00 or 09/00…can we see where this is headed?) In any case, the cash register wouldn’t accept the card, since it assumed my card had expired in August of 1900…Next, I had to deal with all of the off-shooting problems that I associate with Y2K, namely the idiot salesperson who had no clue what I meant when I told them to call MasterCard for a manual authorization. (“I don’t think we can do that, sir…”) I finally gave up. The next Anne Perry Mystery would have to wait.
Re: credit & debit cards with post-1999 expiration dates. I have a debit card (with a Mastercard logo) that has a Jan. 2000 expiration date, and I haven’t had ANY problems using it – not once has it been rejected.
As a tech support rep, I get a lot of “problems” with Y2K that can be summed up with the following true conversation that someone more clever than I had.
Tech: Thanks for calling tech support, can I help you?
Caller: Am I Y2K compliant?
Tech Well, what year comes after 1999?
Caller: Huh?
Tech: Hmm. Doesn’t look good.
Caller: What? My computer should be Y2K Compliant!
Tech: Oh, your computer is fine, but I’m worried about the user.
Caller: Asshole click
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My credit cards have MM/YY expiration dates, but all seem to work fine. Just hoping the billing computer crashes next month.
Handy, my driver’s license (that I had renewed in October) is Y2K compliant. All the dates are MM-DD-YYYY. Just in case someone thinks I was born in 1864.
I give the YYYY format 5 years, then people will tire of it and go back to YY. Then let our great-grandkids do it all over again in the 2090’s.
My credit cards have MM/YY expiration dates, but all seem to work fine. Just hoping the billing computer crashes next month.
Handy, my driver’s license (that I had renewed in October) is Y2K compliant. All the dates are MM-DD-YYYY. Just in case someone thinks I was born in 1864.
I give the YYYY format 5 years, then people will tire of it and go back to YY. Then let our great-grandkids do it all over again in the 2090’s.
Maine’s DMV had a similar problem to Jiffy Lube’s. The computer recognized new cars (made in 2000) as being made in 1900. Hence, they were designated on the vehicle title as being “Horseless Carriages”.