# Report Y2K failures here

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-y2k-failures-here/5040>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 1, 1999, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-y2k-failures-here/5040 "1999-12-01T11:26:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-y2k-failures-here/5040/1 "1999-12-01T11:26:00Z")

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I’d like to start a thread to track and report Y2K failures that you have experienced already, or that you can document.

Here’s a Y2K problem that the chain jiffy lube is experiencing:  
[http://www.artbell.com/images/y2kjiffy.jpg](http://www.artbell.com/images/y2kjiffy.jpg)

Does anyone else have any examples to share?

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-y2k-failures-here/5040/2 "1999-12-01T13:22:00Z")

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Good thread idea, Krispy!

I think it was Philadelphiia that recently sent out a batch of impossible to comply with jury summons for January 1900.

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**Author:** ![colvile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@colvile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colvile)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-y2k-failures-here/5040/3 "1999-12-01T13:42:00Z")

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## 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.

Civility costs nothing.

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**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-y2k-failures-here/5040/4 "1999-12-01T16:18:00Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 1999, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/report-y2k-failures-here/5040/5 "1999-12-01T16:23:00Z")

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This is a good idea for a thread - in MPSIMS, no question.