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Genuinely interested how this will self-fix after August 2022.

• moeadham 5y ago
  The engineer who wrote the code will retire in Aug. Problem solved
  • benjaminwai 5y ago
    I kind of sympathize the engineer who had to code this in the first place years ago. I could see it, it was probably a junior person being thrown into it. He would have had to deal with non-standard components, incompatible packages and limited memory, and had a manager breathing down his neck because the manufacturing line was starting up.. He's probably looking up at the clock and thinking that it had enough bits for the foreseeable future.
    • throwaway472927 5y ago
      I'd be a bit surprised if anyone even checked, it's easy to type int out of habit when a number is needed, or even if the dev did consider it the code building and running might be enough reassurance.
  • AshamedCaptain 5y ago
    Or rather: it's the latest date we are legally required to support this piece of software on these old cars on any tier-one country.
• phkahler 5y ago
  August is the 8th month. Something something octal...