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Yes, it was a real potential crisis, and it was only ameliorated because lots of companies spent tons of money testing and reviewing their systems, and fixing b
by gentle 7y ago
Yes, it was a real potential crisis, and it was only ameliorated because lots of companies spent tons of money testing and reviewing their systems, and fixing bugs that they found.
Airplanes were probably never going to fall out of the sky at the stroke of midnight, but I personally fixed tons of bugs that had potential impacts in the dozens of millions of dollars.
- gentle 7y agoAnd, like others have pointed out, teams started working on fixes well in advance of the changeover (~4-5 years with the systems that I was familiar with), but even with the extra money and the extra time, there were systems that were not remediated until shortly before the changeover.