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Old 01-03-2010, 11:01 AM
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Default Another Note about Y2K
In many cases, teams of consultants worked on the "legacy" apps (often, really old COBOL programs) to install fixes that would correct the flip-over date problem. In some cases, the cost of making complete fixes was so large that people in charge elected to have quick 50-year fixes installed. Their thinking was: "I'll be long gone by then." In those cases, the very same problem will surface in 2049 unless corrected before.