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The only fail I saw from the original Y2K was a credit card receipt dated 1/2/100.

by mark-r 7y ago

DannyB2 7y ago
I was waiting for Microsoft to release a Windows 00 or Windows 01.
- mark-r 7y ago
  That was never going to happen, because too many apps use poor logic for determining which version of Windows they are compatible with. This is the same reason there was never a Windows 9, because too many apps checked the first character of the version and if it was "9" they assumed Windows 95 or Windows 98.
  - frosted-flakes 7y ago
    Is that actually the case, or is it just a rumour? The version number never matched the OS name until Windows 10, and Windows already has a very robust backwards compatibility framework that can simulate older OSs, so I'm not sure why that would be a problem. Windows 95 is version 4.10, XP is v5.1/v5.2, Vista is v6.0, Windows 8.1 is v6.3, and Windows 10 is v10.0.
    - mark-r 7y ago
      I can't say I know of a specific app that had the bad version check. But given Microsoft's devotion to keeping old things working when you upgrade, it at least seems plausible. This is the closest I can find to a definitive statement: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind...
jandrese 7y ago
I saw a handful of receipts and the like that listed the year as 19100. I'm about 99% sure that the fix was to subtract 100 from the year and change the text field from "19" to "20", thus fixing the problem forever.
- cpcallen 7y ago
  I'll take that bet! The correct fix is to add 1900.
  - jandrese 7y ago
    Then the year would display as 192000.
    - mark-r 7y ago
      You're assuming the year was stored as 19100. It's far more likely it was stored as 100, and "19" was prepended to a string conversion.
Izkata 7y ago
I vaguely remember reading about a y2k issue with some archived NASA data, discovered around 2006. Haven't been able to find a mention again, but this one stuck out as the article implied it wasn't just a timestamp, that it somehow affected the data and it had to be adjusted afterwards.

The only fail I saw from the original Y2K was a credit card receipt dated 1/2/100.

by mark-r 7y ago

The only fail I saw from the original Y2K was a credit card receipt dated 1/2/100.

DannyB2 7y ago

I was waiting for Microsoft to release a Windows 00 or Windows 01.

mark-r 7y ago
That was never going to happen, because too many apps use poor logic for determining which version of Windows they are compatible with. This is the same reason there was never a Windows 9, because too many apps checked the first character of the version and if it was "9" they assumed Windows 95 or Windows 98.
- frosted-flakes 7y ago
  Is that actually the case, or is it just a rumour? The version number never matched the OS name until Windows 10, and Windows already has a very robust backwards compatibility framework that can simulate older OSs, so I'm not sure why that would be a problem. Windows 95 is version 4.10, XP is v5.1/v5.2, Vista is v6.0, Windows 8.1 is v6.3, and Windows 10 is v10.0.
  - mark-r 7y ago
    I can't say I know of a specific app that had the bad version check. But given Microsoft's devotion to keeping old things working when you upgrade, it at least seems plausible. This is the closest I can find to a definitive statement: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind...

jandrese 7y ago

I saw a handful of receipts and the like that listed the year as 19100. I'm about 99% sure that the fix was to subtract 100 from the year and change the text field from "19" to "20", thus fixing the problem forever.

cpcallen 7y ago
I'll take that bet! The correct fix is to add 1900.
- jandrese 7y ago
  Then the year would display as 192000.
  - mark-r 7y ago
    You're assuming the year was stored as 19100. It's far more likely it was stored as 100, and "19" was prepended to a string conversion.

Izkata 7y ago

I vaguely remember reading about a y2k issue with some archived NASA data, discovered around 2006. Haven't been able to find a mention again, but this one stuck out as the article implied it wasn't just a timestamp, that it somehow affected the data and it had to be adjusted afterwards.