All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours

Re:All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours by larrywright on Friday June 12, 2009 @11:00PM (#655734)

It always irritates me when people say "Y2K was such a non-event". It was a non-event because a whole lot of people fixed and tested a whole lot of code. If they hadn't, the world would have been a pretty miserable place on 1/1/2000.

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Re:All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours by eru on Saturday June 13, 2009 @06:07AM (#656017)

Perhaps not really miserable, but a lot of things in administration (etc) would not have continued to work.

(My grandfather was also one of those fixers.)

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Re:All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours by larrywright on Saturday June 13, 2009 @12:10PM (#656233)

Depends... the code that runs an insurance company is one thing. The embedded computers would likely have been the biggest problem - things that dispense medicine, control the power grid, etc.

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Re:All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours by eru on Saturday June 13, 2009 @01:30PM (#656301)

Few embedded systems depend on the date, do they?

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Re:All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours by larrywright on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @05:53PM (#660971)

I don't have first hand experience, but from what I understood, yes. Particularly in monitoring devices: "Shut this off if you haven't received a signal in x minutes". That sort of thing.

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Re:All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours by eru on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @07:49AM (#661674)

Thanks.

Though I imagine that those watchdogs might have more problems with the year 2038.

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