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It's not my real birthday, it's just the one I use on the net. Like waterlesscloud I hop it will break something somewhere. Or at least amuse a fellow engineer.
by cstuder 14y ago
It's not my real birthday, it's just the one I use on the net. Like waterlesscloud I hop it will break something somewhere. Or at least amuse a fellow engineer.
Somebody else however suggested using 31st december 1969. Now that's just evil...
- adlpz 14y ago31st Dec 1969 23:59 UTC, Ouch
- khet 14y agoWhy is that bad? Please enlighten a naive hacker
- cstuder 14y agoIf you convert this to Unix epoch time (Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00), the result will be -1. Which is problematic in several scenarios: - Databases which store dates in integer fields and maybe don't handle negative values. - Other overflows unhandled by date parsers - Libraries, which use -1 as 'invalid'.
- philbarr 14y agoI love how I learnt a real hacker titbit from an age poll.