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Cover Quote: January 2020

At the end of the 20th century, many and much more severe incidents were expected leading to the breakdown of elevators, production facilities, account management systems, and other information management systems, but also affecting any kind of technical equipment based on microcomputers (embedded systems) such as cars, trains, airplanes, medical equipment, etc. Governments and companies anticipated that a combination of different breakdowns could lead to chaotic situations in developed countries. Therefore, many countries started projects to check whether all computer systems would fail at the turn of the millennium. This could be done by simulating the event: Manually change the date and time of the system to December 31, 1999, 23:59, and monitor the system’s behavior during the change of date.

- Thomas Huckle & Tobias Neckel
Bits and Bugs, 2019
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