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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Germany Y2.1K bug as well


    Funny thing about the Y2K thing ... my work had spent millions of dollars and nothing happened, but if you recall, 2000 was also a Leap Year and of Feb. 29, 2000 our systems went crazy, our IT guy quit and we all went home early ...
    Digital SPR from October 1983

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  • darmstadt
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    Germany Y2.1K bug as well

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  • NotAllThere
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    El Reg thanks our contact who said this incident: "Reminds me of your recent article about cheap and dirty Y2K bug fixes where some unscrupulous programmers put in a simple if <10 = 20xx otherwise the date is 19xx." Indeed. ®

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  • Scary
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    Y2.01K bug trips up Symantec
    Schoolboy error causes red faces

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01...tec_y2k10_bug/

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  • Sysman
    started a topic 2016 bug

    2016 bug

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