Universal Year 2000 (Y2K) Problem

CSC/ITSU set up a committee to tackle the Year 2000 (Y2K) date problem for the centrally managed computer systems in August, 1997. Since then, we have been making great effort to promote awareness of the Y2K problem, and to make our computer systems and the campus backbone network Y2K compliant. The current status is that the campus backbone network is now Y2K compliant. The academic systems will be compliant by June 1999, while the administrative systems will be compliant by September 1999. We are also working on a contingency plan which will be ready by June this year.

We would like to take this opportunity to remind you once again to tackle the Y2K problem now if you have not done so. If any of your applications link to the applications of other parties or partners, you should also check with them on their Y2K readiness status. You should also start establishing a contingency plan for your critical applications just in case the applications do not work, for any reason, at the start of next year.

Please visit the CUHK Y2K homepage where a full range of information on support, product information, pointers, etc. is available.