Agreed. In my case, I and the rest of a team spent a year analyzing and finding problem areas, fixed them, ran factory acceptance tests, and finally travelled t

Agreed. In my case, I and the rest of a team spent a year analyzing and finding problem areas, fixed them, ran factory acceptance tests, and finally travelled to a major customer and on-site tested the fixes (this was, at that time, pretty old software). In this particular case a non-fixed Y2K situation would result in a major setback in the type of weather forecasts we all were getting used to at the time.. So yes, nothing much bad happened, _because_ a huge effort was put in everywhere to prevent it.