What ever happened to Y2K?

[dinzdale]

I can't even find it on my keyboard any more....

[ambo]

Originally Posted by rapscalious rob

it had to do with a programming bug- the year of a date was represented by the last 2 digits, instead of 4 digits. Apparently, some things did go askew on Y2K, but all the SNAFUs were caught.

Yup, there were a lot of older computer applications that were still using 2 digits for the year. All had to be modified for 4 digits, or logic coded that determined the century based on some algorithm. Some programmers (ahem) made a LOT of money in the couple of years preceding 2000.

[dinzdale]

Originally Posted by ambo

Some programmers (ahem) made a LOT of money in the couple of years preceding 2000.

Wasnt that just the older ones who learnt on an abacus?

[ambo]

Originally Posted by dinzdale

Wasnt that just the older ones who learnt on an abacus?

Money is money.

[dinzdale]

Yup, it all feels the same in a G-string.....

[noxxville]

I have no idea what you people are talking about.....January 1, 2000....one of my webservers said the date was January 1, 19100.......THE HORROR! I'm not sure I have been the same since the 3 seconds it took me to fix it.

[ambo]

Originally Posted by noxxville

I have no idea what you people are talking about.....January 1, 2000....one of my webservers said the date was January 1, 19100.......THE HORROR! I'm not sure I have been the same since the 3 seconds it took me to fix it.

Well, the impact of something like that date snafu on a large system that calculates, for example, interest or insurance premiums, would be catastrophic. I never did hear of any company having major problems related to Y2K though, so I guess all those well-paid programmers did their jobs

[noxxville]

Originally Posted by ambo

Well, the impact of something like that date snafu on a large system that calculates, for example, interest or insurance premiums, would be catastrophic. I never did hear of any company having major problems related to Y2K though, so I guess all those well-paid programmers did their jobs

Sounds like well paid programmer *&%&#^&()#& . . . . .

[Jack Flanders]

Originally Posted by noxxville

I have no idea what you people are talking about.....January 1, 2000....one of my webservers said the date was January 1, 19100.......THE HORROR! I'm not sure I have been the same since the 3 seconds it took me to fix it.

So that explains it!!!

[ambo]

Originally Posted by noxxville

Sounds like well paid programmer *&%&#^&()#& . . . . .

Actually, not at all. Guess you had to be there.

[noxxville]

Originally Posted by ambo

Actually, not at all. Guess you had to be there.

Believe me, I'm not belittling what you did.....guess you didn't catch the joke....but from another point of view......had well paid programmers accounted for this in the first place.......

[ambo]

Originally Posted by noxxville

Believe me, I'm not belittling what you did.....guess you didn't catch the joke....but from another point of view......had well paid programmers accounted for this in the first place.......

Well, I guess I can see your point, noxx. But, when I was just a young wisp of a programmer, I wrote many a program that allotted only 2 digits for the year. Whole applications were written that way, and we DID think about it. The ACCEPTED mindset at the time (and certainly 10 years earlier) was that these applications couldn't POSSIBLY still be running in the year 2000, as they would SURELY be replaced by then!!!!