31 Jul
2025
31 Jul
'25
2:03 a.m.
On Jul 30, 2025, at 21:10, James Knott via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
I was at IBM back then and tested all the stuff I was responsible for. I even went in to work on Jan. 1 to make sure everything was still OK. I didn't notice many planes falling out of the sky! 😉
I was a voice in the wilderness about Y2K back in the 1980s already, but nobody really cared yet. Late 90s the CEOs heard about it and there was funding to put a big push on and we did a lot of very necessary mitigation and when the day came virtually everything sailed through smoothly. I expect the same to happen next decade as 2038 starts to become visible. Anthony