[takinola]

My issue with this version of explaining the lack of severity of Y2K is that there were lots of countries that were being derided for not taking the issue seriously but did not seem to suffer any ill effects.

[akoboldfrying]

This is interesting, do you have any links?

A couple of possible confounding factors I can think of:

1. Plenty of countries use software developed elsewhere.

2. I suspect that the more recently you computerised your economy, the less likely it would be to have code vulnerable to Y2K.