[Shop-talk] Was Y2k real: was everybody OK with Covid-19?

[Mark Andy]

Howdy,

As someone intimately involved with Y2k back in the day...

The software systems I worked on would for sure have broken with any dates
> 12/31/1999.  Now, those systems were all health insurance related, so
unlikely to cause everything to just shut off, but I would imagine billing
systems for utility companies issuing shut off orders for lack of payment,
etc. etc. would also have been affected.

I don't think the world would have ended, but there was legitimately a year
or so of necessary work to make Y2k not being a thing that actually
happened.

FWIW.

Mark

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:37 AM Jeff Scarbrough via Shop-talk <
shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:33 AM Donald H Locker via Shop-talk <
> shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> One problem that we will run into is that if the
>> measures are sufficiently effective, we won't have a catastrophe, and
>> many people will complain, "Well, that was all for naught!" and won't
>> want to take appropriate measures next time.
>
>
> Like Y2k.  I'ts never been clear to me how much of the lack of catastrophe
> was due to overhype, and how much was due to a bunch of people buckling
> down and fixing it before it was a problem.
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