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> in the first couple of months of 2000, the failures were there.

They were there before then too. Things that could go wrong at midnight on NYE were only one of a few classes of problem associated with roll-overs. There were a lot of bugs in like scheduling applications (and similar system tools) in the run up to 2000 that the man on the street didn't associate with the Y2K issue because it didn't happen at that exact moment.



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