Small business waking up to Y2K

It’s a fractured picture for small businesses in Northern Colorado and nationwide when it comes to Y2K preparedness.

Some companies have assessed their systems and completed repair, others are starting to prepare, and some have taken a “wait and see” approach to the date-related event, now about four months away.

Computer hardware and software systems that track dates using the last two numbers of the year could encounter problems when the rollover to the year 2000 prompts 00 to show up on internal clocks. Some computers will recognize the 00 as 1900 instead of 2000, triggering several other errors and failures within…