History and Computing:
The Y2K Deadline

By Edward Barnard

Twenty years later, we’ve mostly forgotten Y2K. Nothing happened. However, there were years of effort behind the non-event. Corporate delay made the endeavor far more complicated because skills had not been passed along to the next generation. What was so difficult? I’ll show you, with a few lines of code from my piece of Y2K.

This article was originally published in the February 2020 issue of php[architect] magazine. To read the complete article please subscribe or purchase the complete issue.

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