Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Invisible wrote:
>> Remember the Y2K bug? The one that was supposed to make planes fall from
>> the skies and nuclear reactors go into meltdown?
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Nah, it wasn't so bad. ;-)
> 
> It wasn't so bad *because software was fixed*.
> 
> Nobody knows what could have happened if people had ignored the problem.

Well, our F/EMS emergency dispatching system for months afterward (until the 
company that supplied it fixed it) had its statistics for 1999/2000 
completely screwed up. It'd give negative values for ambulance kilometers 
traveled, for example... and no, you couldn't just flip the sign to get the 
right answer.

I guess if it hadn't been for all the Y2k hype beforehand, other stuff might 
have gone awry as well.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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