Any real challenges to the human race quietly passed into the night over the weekend. This leaves us with the mundane reality of applications, networks, non-IT systems and spreadsheets continuing to test year 2000 compliance for years to come. These tiny cuts stem from miscalculations or errant decisions and result in bad data. Errors, which may be driven by cycle dates or just an odd combination of data, can build up and contaminate related systems. Some problems will be caught immediately, while others will be discovered down the road or maybe never.
Derivative errors can then result from bad data being used by downstream systems.
All of this can cause problems in inventory, distribution, tracking or financial systems, or myriad of other problems. When Armageddon is stripped away, we are left with a relatively boring story. Don't get me wrong. Some embedded systems can loop for awhile and fail later. Time will tell if these problems get an honorable mention in the Y2K media frenzy or stay buried in the world from whence they came.