Trump Orders Government to Stop Work on Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later

• The White House is eliminating paperwork for federal agencies
• Federal workers still report on preparedness for year 2000


By -- Bloomberg—— Bio and Archives--June 15, 2017

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Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it. The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year. -- More...
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