We had people come in on the 1st to test everything. Nothing happen. A few websites didn't add 1900 to the year, they put a 19 in front of the year, resulting in 19100.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 5:20 PM Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: > > My oldest was just hitting 5 and couldn't reach the breaker box. But I > was at work anyway. I'm pretty sure everybody showed up, including the > IT dept head. There was basically nothing to do. Maybe about 15 > minutes after midnight I was looking at a console with a couple of > managers behind me and I said "Uh oh", and wow... they were all over me > looking for any kind of problem, probably just to have something to > report. I think it was a date formatted wrong in a WTO or similar - > nothing more. That might have been the extent of the Y2K problems I > remember seeing. > > On 1/2/2020 2:52 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: > > Hmm. I sent the post below, doesn't appear to have ever showed up, so > > retrying! > > > > > > > > From: Phil Smith III > > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:27 PM > > To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu <mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu> > > Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... > > > > > > > >> Has it been 20 years since Y2K?? sometimes it seems like last year, other > >> times seems like another lifetime ..... > > > > > > > > How many of us had smartass kids hanging out in the basement who, at > > 12:00:01, threw the main breaker? I know I did! > > > > > > > > Like many of you, I was on call that night, took the 2AM-10AM shift (at > > Sterling Software). Around 5AM when it was clear nothing was happening, we > > got sent home. I did get a nice sweatshirt out of it. > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
