However, most of the country's crucial organizations expect to have the critical portions of their systems repaired or replaced in time. Currently, the federal government has given no indication that any of their computer systems will fail on January 1, 2000. If the bug were left untouched, problems might occur with billing systems, compliance schedules and maintenance schedules. But since Pacific Gas already has a team assembled to correct the problem, nobody from the utility expects the bug to have an effect on power. The area making the most progress in combating the millennium bug is the financial sector.
Financial programs are far more likely to use dates in calculations than other software packages.
And since most everyone in the financial industry is aware of how interdependent their organizations are, many financial institutions are under both internal and external pressure to fix the problem. It has been reported by some sources that up to 90 percent of the world's existing computers will simply cease to function at the start of the new millennium. Very Few Computers Will Crash Most computers will have no problems whatsoever with the new date. For instance, all Macintosh computers are designed to be accurate until at least the year 2040. The latest models are designed to last another 28,000 years before such a problem arises.