Ever‐widening ripples

Discloses that one of the first organizations to hit the Y2K problem in the UK was the DVLC license authority, which discovered, in 1970, that its 30 expiry dates, over the year 2000 threshold, would not be accepted ‐ other organizations also camp up against this in the UK; in the USA the first to acknowledge the Y2K problem was the Social Security Administration in the early 1980s. Portrays a Figure of the year 2000 response model and another Figure of the relative importance of year 2000 and the Euro (November 1998). Speculates on contingency plans aimed at ensuring the continuity of critical functions supported by public agencies in The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK.