"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 11:12:16 on Sat, 2 Jan
2016, Richard J. remarked:
The free travel thing points even more to a Y2K style problem, if the
charging system wasn't active yesterday. In the Nottingham case it
wasn't spotted until the 2nd because no buses ran on the 1st.

ps I note some NatWest debit cards had outages on the 1st: another Y2K
problem perhaps.

For decades, computer systems have exhibited faults after a holiday
period, caused often by problems in restarting hardware or software after
a holiday outage or reverting to normal operation after non-standard
holiday operation, or caused by changes to the system that were applied
during the holiday. Why are you assuming that this particular instance
was in any way similar to Y2K?

Firstly, because a very similar incident *was* tracked down to that cause,
and secondly the other routine issues you mention ought to be well
understood and planned for during a holiday period.

Plus the fact they are having to talk to their suppliers to work out a
fix, rather than applying a clue-bat to the sysadmin-du-jour.

ISTR that the "contracted out" admin and the suppliers are the same people

tim