(V): ".. I worked for one company years back who were hired to check that computers their contractors used not going to have a logic hiccup through not enough date storage bits... One guy working at the company believed that even toasters were going to be affected by this ""Y2K"" problem."

It's my understanding the Y2K problem was fixed with plenty of time left over before the year 2000 arrived. Oh well, at least it was fun to speculate over what could have happened, and maybe gin up some fear over it. And it could have been worse than anyone anticipated... if it caused clocks to stop working altogether, even analogs like the wind up grandfather clocks, then maybe time itself would have stood still. We will never know, because all those clocks kept on working and moving time along.