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A program bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon
- lt 17y agoOnce a coworker found a bug that would not happen in the mornings - a timestamp was being rounded instead of truncated so in the afternoon it would round off to the next day. Another similar anedocte: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
- CaseOfEmergency 17y agoI liked the CERN story at the end. Imagine having to factor that into your experiments.
- roundsquare 17y agoThe first story isn't so great. I mean, a program that was used to estimate the phase of the moon had bugs that depend on it. Oh my! The second story is great.
- sketerpot 17y agoA bit off-topic, but am I the only one who always sees character encoding problems on that web site? Check this out for a particularly egregious example: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/BNF.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/BNF.html
- coryrc 17y agoAre you using Safari? Even if not, your browser is ignoring the encoding tag. Change the encoding to ISO-8859-1 or ISO-Latin-1 or ISO Windows or whatever your browser calls it...
- johnaspden 17y agoFirefox, same problem on that page, changing encoding solves it.
- Vitaly 17y agono it doesn't. the page does NOT have the encoding tag. so this is a matter of different defaults. safari, ff, and chrome have utf8 as the default. I guess IE has Western or smth