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The FIP-FS “Microsoft” Scan Engine Failed. Can’t Convert “2201010001” to Long
- Taniwha 5y agoFor the record 2201010001 (ie today's date) is greater than the largest 32-bit signed int (while 2112310001 wasn't)
- _dain_ 5y agoWhy on earth do they store it like that?
- stillicidious 5y agoThe codebase is from at least 1996.
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- xereeto 5y agoThis bug could only have been introduced after 2000, because if it can't fit a number beginning with 22 it certainly can't fit one beginning with 96.
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- fredley 5y agoGiven all the y2k fuss how did they not see this one coming?
- Jare 5y agoRest assured, by 2038 we'll have it all properly figured out
- hughrr 5y agoAs per the millenium bug timeline, I suspect we won't start worrying about it until about September 2037... I remember someone running into our office and asking if anyone knew Z80 assembly.
- Freak_NL 5y agoPerhaps someone back in 1999 figured that 2022 was so incredibly far in the future (and way past their retirement), there was no way that codebase would still be allowed in operation. Flying cars and world peace and all.
- breakingcups 5y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756714
- leni536 5y agoMaybe we should have full test networks that run a full year in the future to catch various date bugs ahead of time. The problem is that you probably can't connect it to the Internet.
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- tgv 5y agoTheir code base may be old, but their twitter handle is on point.