Although the most paranoid affirmations around Y2K were certainly exaggerations, it was a very real problem. Nothing bad happened because there was a worldwide effort to fix it. Sure, planes weren’t going to fall out of the sky or anything, but there were some issues and it did cost some money for those who did suffer the consequences. It is not even the only issue with date tracking in software.
Although the most paranoid affirmations around Y2K were certainly exaggerations, it was a very real problem. Nothing bad happened because there was a worldwide effort to fix it. Sure, planes weren’t going to fall out of the sky or anything, but there were some issues and it did cost some money for those who did suffer the consequences. It is not even the only issue with date tracking in software.
It’s like a strange survivor bias isn’t it?
Like people thinking we don’t need measels vaccines because people don’t die of measels any more.