Et tu, Brutus? I cringe every time I hear someone say that Y2K was a nothingburger. I devoted a couple of years of my life to fixing that problem at the company I worked for. Believe me, it was a real thing. I didn't get to party like it was 1999, because I was at work all night monitoring the situation. We did remarkably well, too. Only a couple of minor glitches popped up and those were fixed by the next day.
i didn't mean it was a nothingburger, yes it was a computer problem that had to be fixed.. but the media even then blew it out of proportion.. what they blew it up to was nothing like it was because the computer problem was fixed with updates.
It did have the potential for being catastrophic, though, especially for the manufacturing of goods where it is vital to record the order of processing events via a timestamp. Without the inclusion of the century in the date formatting, events will present out of order, resulting in all kinds of grief. This is but one example of the problems that could have arisen.
The only reason this wasn't a catastrophe is because everyone took it seriously and worked for a couple of years to fix it. No one knew that ahead of time, however, as no one knew what the other companies were or were not doing. All it would have taken for a disaster to occur is a couple of key industries that didn't take the problem seriously.
All in all, this was IT's shining moment and all we got was ridiculed over it because "nothing happened." Imagine the flak we would have taken, though, had "something" happened.
Sorry, this is just a sore spot with me. Most have no clue what a monumental task this truly was.
Et tu, Brutus? I cringe every time I hear someone say that Y2K was a nothingburger. I devoted a couple of years of my life to fixing that problem at the company I worked for. Believe me, it was a real thing. I didn't get to party like it was 1999, because I was at work all night monitoring the situation. We did remarkably well, too. Only a couple of minor glitches popped up and those were fixed by the next day.
i didn't mean it was a nothingburger, yes it was a computer problem that had to be fixed.. but the media even then blew it out of proportion.. what they blew it up to was nothing like it was because the computer problem was fixed with updates.
It did have the potential for being catastrophic, though, especially for the manufacturing of goods where it is vital to record the order of processing events via a timestamp. Without the inclusion of the century in the date formatting, events will present out of order, resulting in all kinds of grief. This is but one example of the problems that could have arisen.
The only reason this wasn't a catastrophe is because everyone took it seriously and worked for a couple of years to fix it. No one knew that ahead of time, however, as no one knew what the other companies were or were not doing. All it would have taken for a disaster to occur is a couple of key industries that didn't take the problem seriously.
All in all, this was IT's shining moment and all we got was ridiculed over it because "nothing happened." Imagine the flak we would have taken, though, had "something" happened.
Sorry, this is just a sore spot with me. Most have no clue what a monumental task this truly was.