The thought of unusual Unix times brings back memories... or nightmares... For several years, the company I had been working for used a multi-platform GUI libr

The thought of unusual Unix times brings back memories... or nightmares... For several years, the company I had been working for used a multi-platform GUI library called C++/Views. We had the code for the library itself and compiled it as needed for the various platforms we needed to support. It came with a handy, yet annoyingly buggy, WYSIWYG GUI-creator tool. Wouldn't you know, the WYSIWYG tool stopped working in September 2001. C++/Views was no longer supported, and we didn't have source code for the WYSIWYG tool. A guy Brian and I experimented around with it awhile and discovered we could use the tool only if we set the system clock back before September 8, 2001. So, that became every developer's workaround: temporarily setting the clock back to use the darn tool. Nasty billennium (1,000,000,000) bug. Fun, fun.