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I felt a lot of relief on the morning of 1st when everything I had done was working perfectly. All the test showed that had it not been fixed there was a lot of

I felt a lot of relief on the morning of 1st when everything I had done was working perfectly. All the test showed that had it not been fixed there was a lot of data corruption. I have been through another one of these where one part of a company changed their year entry from 20XX to just XX to save the people entering it time and multiple systems did not defend against this and suddenly started calculating all intervening years from the time of jesus up to the present day! Its was catastrophic, that simple changed caused several days of disaster recovery but months of defensive programming work as well. Date/time errors can be devastating to business.

ryandrake 2y ago
Stupefying that after Y2K, a company is willing to deliberately make this mistake to save two keystrokes. They deserve whatever bad will come to them in 2100.
- mlyle 2y ago
  If I save a little bit of work now, my life is better. In the unlikely event that the system is still used in 76 years, it will not be my problem. I'm generally against rolling problems to future generations, but taking risks with a minuscule risk of going somewhat badly that may not even be within my children's lifetimes is not a core concern.