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I love the last point. The shuttle's computer can only count to 365 days.

• cynest 15y ago
  And that it would take millions of dollars to fix.
• bigbento 15y ago
  I can empathize. I've always found date-related bugs to be the hardest to track down and messiest to resolve. Especially in applications consuming data from a huge variety of buggy input formats ("So it's a server in Australia, but their application layer adjusts time +36000 seconds and their durations are listed in days, but it's daylight savings here...") "Well, just don't fly the shuttle over New Year's" seems like a reasonable enough workaround for an otherwise highly planned out program, especially when, as a commenter in OP points out, the missions were only intended to run weeks at a time to begin with.
  • pavel_lishin 15y ago
    It's a good thing there were never any emergencies on the station near the end of December.
• thinkzig 15y ago
  Agreed. If that's not an example of YAGNI I don't know what is.