# Don't turn on your 30GB Zune today or it will die.

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**Created:** [December 31, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-turn-on-your-30gb-zune-today-or-it-will-die/479384 "2008-12-31T19:19:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-turn-on-your-30gb-zune-today-or-it-will-die/479384/21 "2009-01-03T01:19:07Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Quite a lot failed at the turnover of Y2K, but most of it wasn’t serious because it was addressed beforehand. The mania is perceived as being misplaced, but it was a call to action for programmers to fix things before year’s end. Their remarkable success at such short notice is unfairly dismissed.

Yeah, I remember coming in Wednesday morning, Jan 2, 1980, and having to drop my planned tasks to work on some programs that had failed in their last production run. Child Support collection programs with a 20-year planning function that suddenly went all funky.

So Y2K wasn’t really such short notice. It was just that the work to fix it kept getting put off by managers, who wanted you to spend your time programming the latest bell or whistle they wanted added to the system!

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