There are less than 56m seconds before the year 2000 date change and many experts say that it is already too late to check and fix all the computers that might be affected.
"The clearly political intent to fix a final and irreversible end-date for German nuclear energy with such unprecedented haste gives me increasing worry, " Hans-Peter Keitel, head of Germany's BDI business lobby, wrote in an open letter to German business leaders Monday.