Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 14
Posted: Sat 30 Dec 2023, 10:22:31
theluckycountry wrote:anyone and everyone had rushed out in 1999 to upgrade because of the Y2K swindle. Oh yes it was a swindle alright, pushed by computer manufacturers
It had nothing to do with hardware as it was a software problem. I've never once seen somebody pushing to upgrade to a new computer because of it. User software was of no concern anyways. Concern were old systems from the 60's and 70's running the backbone of gov, aviation and banking.
Here's a bit of explanation for you:
https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/
The vast majority of people have absolutely no clue how computers work. So when someone comes along and says look we have a problem…[involving] a two-digit year rather than a four-digit year, their eyes start to glaze over
“The Y2K crisis didn’t happen precisely because people started preparing for it over a decade in advance. And the general public who was busy stocking up on supplies and stuff just didn’t have a sense that the programmers were on the job
Next one up BTW is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038 ... %20integer.
The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038,[1] Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse[2][3]) is a time formatting bug in computer systems with representing times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
The potential for disruption here is way bigger because it affects billions of computers and embedded devices.