Article: Area to get year-2000 test: COG survey to be non-disruptive, table-top simulation.(Metropolitan Times)(Top Of The News)

The region will run its biggest test of year-2000 compliance today, but agencies involved in the exercise say it is unlikely the public will notice it is happening.

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments will coordinate a test of year-2000 plans and contingencies - not of computer systems - at 15 public and private agencies in the District, Maryland and Virginia.

An estimated 500 people at the agencies will participate in the six-hour exercise, which begins at 9 a.m. and will simulate the period from 9 p.m. on Dec. 31 to 3 a.m. Jan. 1.

"I don't believe at this time anyone will notice anything going on," COG Executive ...

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