So this system was implemented sometime after 1999, and presumably after 2010, since leading zeros are truncated (ignored) in ints... which means this bug was i

So this system was implemented sometime after 1999, and presumably after 2010, since leading zeros are truncated (ignored) in ints... which means this bug was implemented, pushed out, and no one for up to 12 years thought this could possibly be a problem, at microsoft?