When conducting its own overall Y2K tests, China American Petroleum Company, which accounts for one-eighth of the world's production of the material PTA, was shocked to discover that all the diagrams and lines on the computer screens appeared distorted. It turns out that the scale got completely screwed up by Y2K. "It's a good thing we checked ahead of time!"
石化原料 PTA 產量佔全球八分之一的中美和石化公司，在進行生產線的 Y2K 整合測試時，就赫然發現螢幕上的所有圖形、曲線都呈現扭曲異常，原來是 scale（平均度）亂掉了，「幸好有測！」