Y2K was not the world-ending catastrophe that the media, governments, and tech gurus had predicted. But it still led to some weird, expensive, and sometimes hilarious glitches.

was anyone else disappointed that planes were not literally falling out of the sky on Y2K?

anyway, here are some real world examples of actual problems that did occur

I did like the Leonard Nimoy video with experts attempting to rate how bad things were going to be :)

and of course the Y2K survival kit commercial was unintentionally hilarious with the shattered glass and sirens going off in the background

did anyone here have to deal with issues caused by Y2K, or spend time preparing systems beforehand?

  • @gerryk
    2•1 year ago

    Spent the majority of 1998/9 re-coding retail systems to handle both Y2K and the introduction of the Euro. Good times. Thankfully the language the systems were developed in (Clipper) had the concept of an ‘epoch’ which told it how to interpret 2-digit years, so it was mostly a thing of re-setting the epoch, recompiling and testing… lots of testing.