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From two digit dates like 99 to four digit dates like 1999. There was also the 2005 DST extension that screwed up everything because Windows XP didn't get a pa
by astrodust 8y ago
From two digit dates like 99 to four digit dates like 1999.
There was also the 2005 DST extension that screwed up everything because Windows XP didn't get a patch in time and everyone's calendars were screwed up for months.
- lucb1e 8y agoOh, it's that after all. I thought there were some timezone changes also put through in 2000 or so.
- astrodust 8y agoThere was a sort of rivalry in the Pacific to jockey to the front by wrangling time-zones: https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/1201/p1s4.html https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/1201/p1s4.html Other than that I don't think there was anything remarkable in play. Everyone was too busy patching systems for Y2K to deal with other issues.