[Buckeye McFrog]

I remember the Y2K hoax

It wasn't a hoax. Armies of programmers worked hundreds of thousands of hours fixing all that code.

[chrisser]

"It wasn't a hoax. Armies of programmers worked hundreds of thousands of hours fixing all that code. "

And not a few analysts and consultants doing pre-fix analysis and post-fix testing.

I was a small part of that escapade, and while it wasn't D-day or curing cancer, it would be nice if the larger population was at least a little aware that a huge part of the IT industry managed to take care of the problem once discovered (and do so to a very fixed deadline) so that the actual event was barely a footnote for most of the world.