Privateer
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Ah yes, good old Y2K, 20 years ago today I (and the rest of my colleagues) had to drive to work and ensure that the company's mainframe computer worked OK after two years of constantly testing and retesting the system for the date change on a spare mainframe. Mind you the overtime rate per hour was quite good!My wife was recalling last night how 20 years ago people were freaking out about how the world as we know it was about to end because "y2k".
There was much-hyped concern whether cars, traffic lights, cash machines, etc would work and whether aeroplanes would fall out of the sky.
However, if any of those old systems are still in use by 2033 onwards then the Y2K bug might raise its head again as a lot of coding determined that the actual year was "19xx" if the two-digit year was greater than 33 and "20xx" if the two-digit year was less than or equal to 33! NB the actual year may vary by a few years for each system.