A Note About Y2K Compliance

OR&R provides many kinds of data products and services. In the course of developing these products, OR&R also develops computer programs. Software developed for government use is generally considered to be in the public domain and is made available to the general public for the cost of reproduction and distribution (usually free if downloaded from an ftp or web site). It is distributed with the disclaimer that it is not warrented to be suitable for any particular purpose. This means that we cannot formally certify it to be Y2K compliant.

As a practical matter, the government also has an interest in ensuring that the programs it uses will continue to operate. None of the programs currently distributed on the OR&R web site are known to contain features that will cause them to fail because of the Y2K rollover.

Revised: April 10, 2001
Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration