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Yeah, I got my first office job thanks to Y2K. An enormous amount was spent fixing it, with some of the fixes needed years before 2000-01-01, for example systems that projected into the future

Biggest problem I saw was a program that stored 1999 as 99 and displayed “19”.year

So when set to January 2000 it showed 19100. Its calculations were fine, just its display and reports were wrong

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rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Agreed, most of the actual problems seemed to be in reporting. I saw some cobol stuff that went to 1900. There were a few things where 00 wasn’t an option, But mostly it was just really heinously written stuff that wasn’t expected to be in service even in the '90s.

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- bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  heinously written stuff that wasn’t expected to be in service even in the '90s.
  
  Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
  
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