To be fair, quite a lot of work was done to ensure that things didn’t go wrong when the year changed over, and some things still did go wrong (and still do if you know where to poke), but thankfully there weren’t any globally affecting ones. Mitigations were in place in plenty of time. I can’t recall any specific tragedies, but I would be surprised if there wasn’t a handful of those.
More humorously, many, many websites started the new year with their auto-generated year showing as 19100, because no-one thought to fix that.
32-bit time / the 2038 problem is a similar kind of deal and steady work has been under way probably since Y2K was cleared.
So yeah, we do need to get ahead of the technology (AI this time) like we do with everything else, but we shouldn’t get too worked up about it because the experts have things under control.
To be fair, quite a lot of work was done to ensure that things didn’t go wrong when the year changed over, and some things still did go wrong (and still do if you know where to poke), but thankfully there weren’t any globally affecting ones. Mitigations were in place in plenty of time. I can’t recall any specific tragedies, but I would be surprised if there wasn’t a handful of those.
More humorously, many, many websites started the new year with their auto-generated year showing as 19100, because no-one thought to fix that.
32-bit time / the 2038 problem is a similar kind of deal and steady work has been under way probably since Y2K was cleared.
So yeah, we do need to get ahead of the technology (AI this time) like we do with everything else, but we shouldn’t get too worked up about it because the experts have things under control.
Right…?