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Howdy,
As someone intimately involved with Y2k back in the day...
The software systems I worked on would for sure have broken with any dates
> 12/31/1999. Now, those systems were all health insurance related, so
unlikely to cause everything to just shut off, but I would imagine billing
systems for utility companies issuing shut off orders for lack of payment,
etc. etc. would also have been affected.
I don't think the world would have ended, but there was legitimately a year
or so of necessary work to make Y2k not being a thing that actually
happened.
FWIW.
Mark
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:37 AM Jeff Scarbrough via Shop-talk <
shop-talk@autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:33 AM Donald H Locker via Shop-talk <
> shop-talk@autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>
>> One problem that we will run into is that if the
>> measures are sufficiently effective, we won't have a catastrophe, and
>> many people will complain, "Well, that was all for naught!" and won't
>> want to take appropriate measures next time.
>
>
> Like Y2k. I'ts never been clear to me how much of the lack of catastrophe
> was due to overhype, and how much was due to a bunch of people buckling
> down and fixing it before it was a problem.
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Howdy,</div><div><br></div><div>As someone intimately=
involved with=C2=A0Y2k back in the day...<br><br>The software systems I wo=
rked on would for sure have broken with any dates > 12/31/1999.=C2=A0 No=
w, those systems were all health insurance related, so unlikely to cause ev=
erything to just shut off, but I would imagine billing systems for utility =
companies issuing shut off orders for lack of payment, etc. etc. would also=
have been affected.<br><br>I don't think the world would have ended, b=
ut there was legitimately a year or so of necessary work to make Y2k not be=
ing a thing that actually happened.<br><br>FWIW.<br><br>Mark</div><br><div =
class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 17,=
2020 at 9:37 AM Jeff Scarbrough via Shop-talk <<a href=3D"mailto:shop-t=
alk@autox.team.net">shop-talk@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><block=
quote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1=
px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"lt=
r"><br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail=
_attr">On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:33 AM Donald H Locker via Shop-talk <<a=
href=3D"mailto:shop-talk@autox.team.net"; target=3D"_blank">shop-talk@autox=
.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div>=C2=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gma=
il_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,2=
04,204);padding-left:1ex">One problem that we will run into is that if the =
<br>
measures are sufficiently effective, we won't have a catastrophe, and <=
br>
many people will complain, "Well, that was all for naught!" and w=
on't <br>
want to take appropriate measures next time.</blockquote><div><br></div><di=
v>Like Y2k.=C2=A0 I'ts never been clear to me how much of the lack of c=
atastrophe was due to overhype, and how much was due to a bunch of people b=
uckling down and fixing it before it was a problem.=C2=A0</div></div></div>
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