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Happy 9/10/11

• justatdotin 15y ago
  oh, it's 10/9/11 here ...
• ColinWright 15y ago
  It's 2011/09/10 here 8-) Actually, that makes me think. I lived and worked through the Y2K time, and I was involved in helping convert/examine some code to make sure it was Y2K compatible. Many of the programmers I see today weren't programming at that time, and at least one was found to be saved dates as a 2 digit string. He honestly couldn't see what the fuss was - the code won't be running in the year 2999 - why should he care? I wonder how much of that type of thinking will creep back into the industry, and whether it really will matter. I, for one, think that computers and programming will have evolved into something completely different by 2999. The problem(s) that surface will be different, but probably only in detail.