FILE PHOTO: TomTom navigation are seen in front of TomTom displayed logo in this illustration taken July 28, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
It was the Y2K bug’s little brother, with about the same impact: the world as we know it didn’t end.
Thanks to a quirk in how Global Positioning Systems keep track of time, some devices were due to have their calendars reset at 7.59pm EDT on Saturday, April 6. The change echoed the mostly overhyped hysteria about global computer systems that gripped the world when the calendar was about to tick over from 1999 to 2000. Societal collapse was again avoided.
