No All-Clear For Y2K Bugs After Jan....12/28/99

NEW YORK (AP) - Y2K computer worries won't go away this weekend, even if nothing goes wrong. Glitches are likely weeks, even months, into the new year. And a few may linger until 2001 and beyond. The Gartner Group, a technology consulting firm, estimates only 10% of all Y2K failures will occur during the first two weeks of January. Yet an Associated Press poll taken earlier this month found that only 16% of respondents think Y2K problems will last more than two weeks. And the number who think the problems will be confined to less than a few days has increased from 22% to 36%. Most Y2K planners are aware that Jan. 1 is no magic date, but they fear a quiet weekend might leave the public with a false sense of security.