[George from New England]

I read in the months following y2k that some military missile monitoring system(s) went down for 3 or 4 days after 1/1/2000 turned. Nothing happened but nothing would have been detected either for those days in the dark.

[GingisK]

Those were probably fake reports. I can't think of a thing related to missile monitoring systems that would be affected by the date. The only thing about missiles that would be affected by the date would be navigation. I am pretty sure that navigation software never suffered from Y2K problems.

I have been doing embedded software since 1967; and, I have never had issues with dates. Save navigation, there is almost nothing that would be critically affected by the date rollover.