I understand what the general issue was for y2k. Computer systems that only recorded the last two digits of the year would reset to 01 Jan 1900 and cause issues for banks and other important records. My question is how did people fix the problem and test computers to make sure they were good? Was it a lot of manually typing in shell commands or could IT folks implement a patch with a floppy disk or some other removable media? How do you get a computer that was built to work with a certain date format to recognize dates in a new format?
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It depends on how old the equipment being used was…. Only some seemed to require, as reported, updates filling up a mini boom of specialized IT professionals. The majority of it went off without a single hitch needing updates because the technology accounted for the changing dates properly which probably has something to do with a proper connection to the time clock all technology gets synced with
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