It could have been worse.
A customer at a New York State video rental store had a bill for $91,250, the cost of renting the movie 'The General's Daughter' for 100 years.
Reports of sexual assault on an 83 year old woman by an 80 year old man, and two missing 'youths' of ages 83 and 84 were among the flawed reports given by the faulty system, which caused the system to read year 2000 as year 1900, and interpret the year of birth of the parties involved as their ages.
In Malaysia there were reports of medical equipment failure. Among the equipment that failed were defibrillators and heart monitors.
Seven commercial nuclear reactors across the United States experienced minor glitches. None of these posed a threat to safety. The problems were with computer systems that are used to support physical plant access control and monitoring of operational data.
A nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee experienced a bug in a computer which tracks the weight and type of nuclear material within the plant. The bug at this plant was the only problem which did affect mission critical systems at Energy Department facilities across the nation.
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Hotmail both displayed incorrect dates as a result of a programming command name 'Get Year.' This command returned the year in two-digit format. The result of this was that dates from the year 3900 were displayed. Microsoft was aware of this bug, but did not implement a fix. It asked programmers to change their code to use a new command 'Get Full Year.' Any web pages written that still made use of the old function were subject to error.
A software glitch resulting from an attempted last second fix done in haste causes massive delays in air transportation all over the east coast of the United States.
United States spy satellites transmitted unreadable data for three crucial days. The bug was caused by a patch which was supposed to fix a Y2K bug, but caused the satellites to mangle data transmissions back to Earth.
