Included below is a list of which services are affected when. Taking this action is both prudent in terms of managing the university's computing resources and in allowing staff to take time off to celebrate the holidays. Information will also be available by phone at 255-9900. Shutting down most campus systems during the transition will enhance Cornell's ability to recover from any Year 2000 phenomena in time for the resumption of university business on Jan. 3. The systems are ready for the Y2K transition, but there is still the possibility of unforeseen glitches or a power outage.
Power failures cause serious hardware problems.
Y2K problems elsewhere have local effects. A larger group of services will be down for the weekend. A few services, used almost exclusively when the university is in session, will be down from Dec. 24 until Jan. 3. If there is a major disruption to local or regional infrastructure services, these plans may be altered. Those two servers are expected to be up by the morning of Monday, January 3.