I was considered “brave” and “crazy” for offering to work that shift. People were losing their minds. It was the first time I realized how gullible the general public was. I was the calm in the storm. I reminded them that air was not controlled by a computer and we would survive. It would be like “camping nursing.” Midnight -NOTHING- and people felt stupid. I’m ready for that feeling again. It was priceless.
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I will note that many thousands of programmers/coders did quietly work on their programs ahead of time to make certain there would be no problems with taking two-byte yeardate to a four-byte year date.
As in, going from "99" to "2000" but the computer only has two bytes for the year - so it puts in "00." Does the computer now think it's the year 1900? Yes, because it automatically put a "19" in front of those two bytes that denoted the year.
That was the concern, and it was a very real one. Many programmers did make sure that wouldn't happen. And it didn't.
*Source: Worked as a programmer/analyst for several years about a decade before the Y2K worry hit.