Yesterday, however, the first day of the fiscal week for Godiva, they discovered that everything including cash registers, was down in their New York City, NY store. They located the problem at 9 AM, downloaded a patch by noon and were back up and operational. This just underscores the fact that we will likely continue to hear about Y2K glitches or hiccups in the days ahead. Now we will bring you up to date since our last briefing. Federal Systems Federal systems were tested over the holiday weekend.
Agencies are open for business today.
At this time, there are no reports of any problems. All 1,300 field offices are open and providing their full range of customer services to the American public. The ATF is still working to remedy its information system relating to dealer licenses for gun dealers. Financial markets in the UK, Japan and Korea remain closed for the holiday. The cause of the erroneous date display was the software did not manage to handle the fact that the machines were operating exactly during the turn of the year.