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> the oldest code comment that was found about the year 2000 problem was in code from the early 80s. Do you remember what that comment was? I mean, was it some
by function_seven 10y ago
> the oldest code comment that was found about the year 2000 problem was in code from the early 80s.
Do you remember what that comment was? I mean, was it something like
/* TODO: this won’t work after 1999-12-31, fixme */
or was it more like
/* Using four bytes to handle dates beyond 2000 */
- thesimp 10y agoIt was a comment from someone who understood that 2 digit year notation was bad and explained why he used the full year notation. At this time memory was still counted in kilobytes so it probably was an expensive use of two extra bytes.