@mos_8502 Yep. It really peed me off when people started calling Y2K a non event with no recognition of why that was.

The other part of the problem was the media hype and panic. At the time, I was sole IT support for a spring manufacturer. I spent a few months making sure our manufacturing machines, servers and computers would handle the date change but I spent most of 1998-99 replying to emails and letters from customers that our business would continue as expected. It was all one big paper trail.

For some we even had to provide a guarantee that the springs we provided would not fail as the clock ticked into the new year. This guarantee was essentially us reiterating the contract they signed when ordering and confirming said springs had no time-related functionality 🙄