Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com)

The federal government will finally stop preparing for the Y2K bug, seventeen years after it came and went. Yes, you read that right. Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year. Seven of the more than 50 paperwork requirements the White House eliminated on Thursday dealt with the Y2K bug, according to a memo OMB released. Officials at the agency estimate the changes could save tens of thousands of man-hours across the federal government. The agency didn't provide an estimate of how much time is currently spent on Y2K paperwork, but Linda Springer, an OMB senior adviser, acknowledged that it isn't a lot since those requirements are already often ignored in practice.

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And the Presidential directive was

[Anonymous Coward]

Signed and dated: 6/15/17

Re:And the Presidential directive was

[leathered]

You've obviously not heard of the new months that have been recently added by executive order; Trumpember, Ivankuary and Covefebruary.

Re: What about the Y2K38 bug?

[Hognoxious]

If it has systemd you wouldn't be able to read them anyway.

Re:Delay, not fix

[fahrbot-bot]

Simply switching to a 64 bit linux will be enough for linux users to avoid the bug

Technically that's not a fix, it just delays the problem. Admittedly it's a delay of about 292 billion years but still...

I hear that will also be the year of the Linux Desktop.