I don't know why people are talking about the Y2K bug again but people seem to have forgotten this part:
The fears a Y2K bug would ruin computer systems created a nice little cottage industry of experts telling us to protect ourselves from this and that. Companies paid thousands of dollars to protect their systems
But when the millenium passed, there were no online or offline systems that were hit with any errors or issues
So today the Y2K bug is widely considered a hoax
@plsburydoughboy the talk at the moment is what can be called the year 2038 problem
It's a potential issue in how computers store dates and times at a low level, because computers it's possible that when the clock hits 03:14:08 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 software might misinterpret it as being some time in 1901
Also the reason there weren't any issues in 2000 was the sheer amount of remediation work done, not that it wasn't a problem
