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Why does everyone always say Y2K wasn't an issue ? I'm sure there were a lot of consultant making too much money with little work - however _alot_ of bug fixes

Why does everyone always say Y2K wasn't an issue ? I'm sure there were a lot of consultant making too much money with little work - however _alot_ of bug fixes were done, that would have caused problems. So because it was taken seriously , stuff were fixed and issues didn't happen because of that. Personally, I fixed 3 Y2K bugs back then, 2 of them would have brought down a rather critical business support to simply crash every time new data arrived.

dfc 14y ago
"In spite of all press that Y2K was just a silly waste of money, its events like these that makes me suspect it would have been a much bigger deal if everyone had ignored it and fixed it after things where shown to break." Did you read the parent's post?
jerf 14y ago
"Why does everyone always say Y2K wasn't an issue?" From the outsider's perspective, it is indistinguishable from any number of other putative disasters that required lots of money to fix, yet didn't come to pass... in some cases including putative disasters in which the money wasn't spent and the disaster didn't happen anyway. I have the insider's perspective and I agree that it is the more accurate, that Y2K was, if not necessarily going to end the world, certainly a bad thing and was largely averted through effective engineering. But I can still see how from the outside it sure doesn't look that way.
- ChuckMcM 14y ago
  This. Many, if not a majority, of my non-technical friends and acquaintances have expressed at one time or another a reference to the "Y2K disaster" and rolled their eyes to suggest it was somehow not an issue. I was the 'Y2K compliance officer' at my startup at the time (we even got certified, and that actually may have been a scam (the certifying part)) but we identified and fixed a number of issues our box would have suffered had we not done the work.

dfc 14y ago

"In spite of all press that Y2K was just a silly waste of money, its events like these that makes me suspect it would have been a much bigger deal if everyone had ignored it and fixed it after things where shown to break." Did you read the parent's post?

jerf 14y ago

"Why does everyone always say Y2K wasn't an issue?" From the outsider's perspective, it is indistinguishable from any number of other putative disasters that required lots of money to fix, yet didn't come to pass... in some cases including putative disasters in which the money wasn't spent and the disaster didn't happen anyway. I have the insider's perspective and I agree that it is the more accurate, that Y2K was, if not necessarily going to end the world, certainly a bad thing and was largely averted through effective engineering. But I can still see how from the outside it sure doesn't look that way.

ChuckMcM 14y ago
This. Many, if not a majority, of my non-technical friends and acquaintances have expressed at one time or another a reference to the "Y2K disaster" and rolled their eyes to suggest it was somehow not an issue. I was the 'Y2K compliance officer' at my startup at the time (we even got certified, and that actually may have been a scam (the certifying part)) but we identified and fixed a number of issues our box would have suffered had we not done the work.