@mkj @glent @johnzajac I did see this Quora post that suggests this might not have been a real problem, but arose as a joke in the perl community, which seems plausible... https://www.quora.com/Was-the-only-Y2K-problem-caused-by-a-widely-circulated-Perl-script-designed-to-fix-the-problem-Is-this-the-reason-that-Perl-disqualifies-itself-from-nuclear-power-plant-use

(The year being given as the number of years since 1900 is from the C gmtime() function, so that wouldn't have been a perl specific problem.)

@glent @johnzajac Do you remember any details? I don't remember any perl-specific problems, but it would be interesting to know.