That's never easy to do. You have to find all the places in all these programs and recompile everything, run through your tests again, and then coordinate when it is possible to make the data change and the program changes all at one time. A lot of people are 24x7 shops. No. 1 Priority Cooper advised shops to make the year 2000 their No. 1 priority to analyze their existing applications and procedures, to decide where they are year 2000 vulnerable, and to begin efforts immediately to remedy the situation. Tools exist to identify potential year 2000 vulnerabilities and give an annotated source.
Cooper happens to have such a product.
It's up to the user then to get all code up to date. January 1st 2000 falls on a Saturday, so they don't have to deal with it right away. They can convert everything during the weekend. Numbers Cooper noted several people have come up with numbers on what the year 2000 will cost. The Social Security Administration has been working on the year 2000 since 1989.