{"id":936,"date":"2025-03-12T18:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:33:48","slug":"all-people-could-do-was-hope-the-nerds-would-fix-it-the-global-panic-over-the-millennium-bug-25-years-on-tom-faber-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/all-people-could-do-was-hope-the-nerds-would-fix-it-the-global-panic-over-the-millennium-bug-25-years-on-tom-faber-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAll people could do was hope the nerds would fix it\u2019: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on\u201d &#8211; Tom Faber (The Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe remediation work was not sexy. Guenier called the job of scouring raw code for dates that might be problematic an \u201cexceptionally boring and unglamorous undertaking\u201d that involved repeated rounds of testing, because changing code could cause issues elsewhere in the system. It was an enormous job. Martyn Thomas, who ran Y2K remediation efforts internationally for Deloitte, recalled the work for the finance division of General Motors in Europe: \u201cWe put together a small army of people, rented an aircraft hangar and bought three or four hundred PCs so we could run the scanning and repair equipment needed. And that was just one example of what was happening all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/28\/all-people-could-do-was-hope-the-nerds-would-fix-it-the-global-panic-over-the-millennium-bug-25-years-on\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/28\/all-people-could-do-was-hope-the-nerds-would-fix-it-the-global-panic-over-the-millennium-bug-25-years-on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe remediation work was not sexy. Guenier called the job of scouring raw code for dates that might be problematic an \u201cexceptionally boring and unglamorous undertaking\u201d that involved repeated rounds of testing, because changing code could cause issues elsewhere in the system. It was an enormous job. Martyn Thomas, who ran Y2K remediation efforts internationally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}