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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Me too. Was in the insurance industry at that point, working on a mainframe set up in the 1970s. Two digit year field across much of the system, but not all of it. No julian dates. Many many jury-rigged subsystems in 4 different programming languages to cope with all the different kinds of policies. Payments to be credited properly across 7 time zones and 3 different currencies from a myriad of banks etc. There was a real possibility that everything would re-set to 1900. But we got it right and got it done on time and fairly close to budget. Then the general public laughed and said Y2K was a hoax.

    • Jay Stephens@mastodon.social
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      1 year ago

      @Thornburywitch heh.
      Yup, same - Thomas Miller in London (marine mutual insurance). Reasonably coherent code base (entire back end on AS/400, all business logic in RPG, COBOL, or SQL) But the code base was large, all data at rest & all decision logic coded with 2-digit years… And yeah we got there somehow, and woke up tired & hung -over to headlines about how the problem was exaggerated.

      If we survive global warming by rebuilding the entire global economy on renewables it’ll be the same.