Saw something similar about how Y2K was overblown by someone was maybe 10-12 years old when companies spent millions mitigating the effects of a decision to store the year as two digits in payroll/pension databases. Do a little reading…
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I was one of the programmers who worked on that. I was terrified on New Year’s Eve about what might happen. It was such relief when everything was ok.
dec 14, 2024, 4:11 am • 53 0 • view
Same. We didn't have a building sized generator for our datacenter so we shut down everything for an hour and a half just to make sure we didn't get forced down the hard way.
dec 14, 2024, 5:06 am • 4 0 • view
I worked 3 hours of overtime that night in case it all went to hell. It was rather anticlimactic.
dec 14, 2024, 4:44 am • 18 0 • view
What I remember was not the anticlimax, but the relaxation from no climax. Admittedly not the usual path of a drama, but maybe it was a sign that this millennium would be fully postmodern.
dec 14, 2024, 5:43 am • 15 0 • view
yeah, I was sitting on a conference call with a lot of my co-workers hoping that nothing fell over as midnight arrived across all the world's time zones (I worked for an outfit that spanned all of them). It all worked…
dec 14, 2024, 4:13 am • 7 0 • view
I was especially happy when Sydney stayed up. Whew.
dec 14, 2024, 8:04 pm • 1 0 • view