>Spoiler: Most software you create wont be around in 10 years A personal anecdote (that at least I still chuckle about): I was working for a start up about ab

>Spoiler: Most software you create wont be around in 10 years A personal anecdote (that at least I still chuckle about): I was working for a start up about about 5 years ago working on a the reporting system for measuring customer metrics, the data was granular enough that we allowed the customer to drill down to the per-hour activity level. As a result it was deemed important to represent the data in the customer's timezone. To "future proof" the system we had a table indicating when to shift an hour for daylight savings time. I populated the table to go out 25 years I think. My manager asked me "what happens in 2033?". But after a moment of thought he came to the same conclusion you did and 25 years was deemed sufficient.