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<blockquote data-quote="Gene2memE" data-source="post: 76828537" data-attributes="member: 341130"><p>It was definitely a real issue for some systems. </p><p></p><p>As I was completing university I was working two part-time jobs. One of the companies was a small liquor retailer, which had an ancient and custom HP-Unix database tracking forward orders and customer delivery schedules (among other things). </p><p></p><p>Around the first third of 1999, we started getting point of sale and backend system crashes. It turned out the database couldn't process orders for delivery beyond 31 December 1999 - from what I remember it basically read it as a null entry and would enter a look up loop. </p><p></p><p>The company kludged a fix by temporarily setting the database back to 1989 (although that caused all sorts of other issues). HP eventually produced a patch, but there was a good chunk of time where Y2K was a real pain for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gene2memE, post: 76828537, member: 341130"] It was definitely a real issue for some systems. As I was completing university I was working two part-time jobs. One of the companies was a small liquor retailer, which had an ancient and custom HP-Unix database tracking forward orders and customer delivery schedules (among other things). Around the first third of 1999, we started getting point of sale and backend system crashes. It turned out the database couldn't process orders for delivery beyond 31 December 1999 - from what I remember it basically read it as a null entry and would enter a look up loop. The company kludged a fix by temporarily setting the database back to 1989 (although that caused all sorts of other issues). HP eventually produced a patch, but there was a good chunk of time where Y2K was a real pain for us. [/QUOTE]
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