Computer bugs in the year 2000
Liudvikas Bukys
bukys at rochester.UUCP
Tue Jan 22 10:09:44 AEST 1985
Spencer L. Bolles:
"... He is a programmer and has this notion that when we reach the
year 2000, computers will not accept the new date. Will the computers
assume that it is 1900, or will it even cause a problem? ..."
Hey! No big deal! So what if every piece of code that prints dates with
ctime[3] starts believing every year in the 21st century is Year 2, thanks to
a little parenthesization error?
cp[2] = '0' + t->tm_year >= 200;
Or, as Joe Bob would say,
"It could happen here."
P.S. I will leave unnamed the
particular Unix version I pulled this
source line from. I don't know which
of the popular factions introduced it
first or fixed it first. I don't want
to know, and please don't tell me.
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