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I'm rather interested in what kind of software developed after Y2K still exhibiting Y2K bug, and how it affects the usage. Is it made with the assumption that i

• avar 8y ago
  A lot of software was never fixed for the Y2K problem. People just went from e.g. entering a date of 99 to 00 as the new millennium rolled around, and dealt with the pain of any time offset calculations being incorrect and needing to be manually fixed for a few months. Some of it's doubtless still in use and people are entering "19" as the year today, and if it's still in use in 2099 we'll have the exact same problem all over again with the exact same software. That may seem crazy today, but people in the 1950s would have thought you were crazy if you said B-52s were still going to be flying in 2020. There's doubtless going to be people still running Windows 95 on some emulator in 2100 to use some legacy application that keeps chugging along. Some software we use today might be in use for thousands of years or more, unlike airframes it isn't subject to any natural decay or wear.