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Why 2K no problem? Because we fixed it

Twenty five years ago this evening, I rang in New Year 2000 in the ops center at ING Barings in midtown Manhattan...and nothing happened.

Since then, people have largely bought into the myth that because nothing happened, the Y2K problem wasn't a real problem. I assure you, it was a real problem, thousands of programmers spent most of the late '90s fixing it.

Remember this when the Unix timestamp problem hits us on 19 January 2038. If my Social Security check that month gets delayed because everyone forgot how much work we did in 1999, I will be very cross. But, as that's only 13 years away, I'll probably be one of the people fixing it. Again.

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