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Article #356Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
From: Liudvikas Bukys
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1985 00:09
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1985 00:09
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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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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!bukys From: bukys@rochester.UUCP (Liudvikas Bukys) Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.flame,net.puzzle Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000 Message-ID: <5565@rochester.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 19:09:44 EST Article-I.D.: rocheste.5565 Posted: Mon Jan 21 19:09:44 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 06:06:36 EST References: <820@reed.UUCP> Followup-To: net.why-are-you-following-up-to-three-newsgroups.why-am-I? Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 22