AFAIK, the Year 2000 problem was nowhere near as catastrophic as many had predicted.

It was not catastrophic because of the hype. For example, the small factory I worked at as an intern had a "Y2K Intern" role. As in, they approached the local university and specifically hired co-op students over the course of about 1.5 years to run all their factory software across the Y2K boundary. This would not have happened if the Y2K scare was not looming large over the managers.

In that sense, the scare over Y2K was a success story. The engineers all knew that shit was going to hit the fan, and collectively alarmed the managers of the world to do something about it.

In reply to Re^4: The Y2K 2038 problem by NERDVANA
in thread The Y2K 2038 problem by harangzsolt33

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