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We were all on Y2K jobs, in the sense that for the decade of the 90s you'd get looked at very weirdly if you tried to produce code and systems using two digit y
by VLM 7y ago
We were all on Y2K jobs, in the sense that for the decade of the 90s you'd get looked at very weirdly if you tried to produce code and systems using two digit years.
- slantyyz 7y agoI guess I have a different perception. If you were trying to produce code in the 90s using two digit years, the weird looks had less to do with Y2K than "why would you save incomplete data to save a couple of bytes"? For context, most of the devs I worked with at that time finished their CS degrees within the previous 10 years, and were not legacy systems programmers. Doing 2 digit years was inconceivable to them.