The MB was far from a storm in a teacup. It was nullified due to a lot of hard and good work by thousands of programmers. I should know, I was one of them.
Notwithstanding your hard work changing the date fields in code lines, in retrospect, it became clear that it was largely a Keynesian employment scam. In the run-up to it, I remember speaking to the senior partner of The Gartner Group, who was one of the main evangelists for 'fixing it' (&, naturally, encouraging soft targets in the public sector and utilities to employ his firm to check the extent of their problem) - he was a cynical twat, and I'm pretty sure he was caught out about five years afterwards.
Lots of places which had legacy systems but
which did no remedial work suffered precisely
00 problems. Or 0000, if you prefer.
I'm glad you got the employment though.
