You call it "hype" because you never saw it happen.
I made some good money working long hours in the late 90s fixing systems to keep the Y2K disaster from happening. On the whole, we were tremendously successful.
...and now you dismiss it as mere "hype". That's because we prevented it from occurring.
To quote Mark Levin, "THANK ME!"
re: “You call it “hype” because you never saw it happen.”
I’m in the bidness of embedded code.
#1, Nothing in real-time, motor control, safety, depends on date. Billing, yes. Safety, no.
#2. You don’t think financial institutions ALREADY had ‘complaint code libraries’?
HOW did they ‘print out’ amortization tables YEARS into the future then? I had one on my 2nd mortgage for crying out loud.
Geesh ... you ppl just don’t think.