Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real?
by Tor3 on Friday March 13, 2020 @08:39AM
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>..and what would be the cost (when compared to those billions of dollars spent) if they weren't fixed at all.
I worked on fixing Y2K bugs at the time. It was very methodically and planned, and tested on-site at a space agency. If we hadn't fixed those Y2K issues at the time then weather forecasts would have suffered greatly. The cost of that happening? Hard to calculate I think.
I worked on fixing Y2K bugs at the time. It was very methodically and planned, and tested on-site at a space agency. If we hadn't fixed those Y2K issues at the time then weather forecasts would have suffered greatly. The cost of that happening? Hard to calculate I think.