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Insurers and financial institutions had to deal with quite a few of their Y2K problems well ahead of the year 2000. Figuring out rates and percentages on a 30 year loan would have you calculating dates after 2000 as far back as 1970, when Unix was still being created.

I wonder how many of these companies started seeing problems back in 2008?

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Lots. It wasn't catastrophic at the time -- in most cases. (There were a few!)

I remember when HP was trying to test their DC in Germany, they rolled the computers (and the VMs) up, and then back, but the DC locks, well, locked, and the staff couldn't get in to access the computers to resolve any RT logging info spewing out. Fun times.

Many of the Y2K problems were handled annually, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, minutely and secondly well in advance of "the deadline".

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