Y2K

At the time, I was a manager at one of the largest retail brokerage firms in the country. I was "nominated" to be part of the Y2K task force. So I spent much of the year on mutliple conference calls. Night of the "event", I was in the office testing systems. I got an extra bonus which I recall was $1,000. Yippee!
 
Sealion II said:
At the time, I was a manager at one of the largest retail brokerage firms in the country. I was "nominated" to be part of the Y2K task force. So I spent much of the year on mutliple conference calls. Night of the "event", I was in the office testing systems. I got an extra bonus which I recall was $1,000. Yippee!
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That was actually a $10k bonus. Y2K snipped off a zero.
 
This brings back memories. I worked in IT for a financial services institution at the time, and we spent several years prior to Y2K inventorying, remediating and testing every piece of software we supported. I recall that we bought a product called Tik-Tok, which allowed you to set the system date to whatever you wanted. We used it to see what would happen when all our products ran on dates after 1999. They all worked fine during testing as well as, not surprisingly, on the Big Night itself. One of the managers brought a bottle of champagne and we all had a sip to celebrate the non-event.
 
puzzler said:
I recall that we bought a product called Tik-Tok, which allowed you to set the system date to whatever you wanted.
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That isn't what Tik-Tok does today. ;)

All systems have a date function that enables you to set any date you want, no special software necessary. I reset the date on thousands of servers of every manufacturer you can name and ran test after test after test... NOT good times.
 
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