I see various Y2K pieces are making the rounds in advance of the 25th anniversary, often of the "all this fuss over nothing" persuasion. As someone who played a (very small) part in the War on #Y2K it's frustrating to see that all the effort to stop it being a problem is ignored, either from ignorance or inconvenience to the narrative.
This article "What Really Happened in Y2K?" by Professor Martyn Thomas (PDF) regulation.org.uk/library/2017… gives a really useful round up of the issues and problems.
Chris Samuel
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Als Antwort auf Chris Samuel • • •The Guardian printed a heavily summarised version two years after that 2017 report. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It omits the issues around Y2K also being a leap year, which many programmers had missed (and which, four years earlier, had led the over NZ$1M of damages to the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter when its control systems failed to handle a leap year).
The millennium bug was real – and 20 years later we face the same threats
Martyn Thomas (The Guardian)