NEWPORT BEACH
It was Y2-chaos in Newport Beach this week as a district computer called parents--all night long Monday--telling them their kids weren’t in school that day.
The glitch was the result of a Y2K upgrade, said Alan Engard, interim director of information technology for the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.
The district uses an automatic computer system to call the parents of middle and high school students who have been marked absent.
The system is normally programmed to stop calling at 9 p.m., Engard said. But after a Y2K systems upgrade, done by Williams Communication in Santa Ana, which created the system, the shut-off time was not reprogrammed.
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