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Article #379Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
From: Berry Kercheval
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1985 17:33
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1985 17:33
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In article <301@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes: >In the IBM world, the date >of December 31, 1999 is the highest (latest) date that can be >specified. So if you have stuff that you want to keep forever, >you put a date of 99365 on it. I leave it to your imagination >what will happen on 12/31/99 when all of those computers find >all of those disk files and tapes are to be scratched. I once heard an apocryphal story to the effect that a Systems Programmer at Large Unnamed Corp. was debugging something late one night and for some reason it became necessary to set the system date at 99365. Guess what happened at midnight? Guess who is now a plumber? -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900
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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 zinfandel.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.flame Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000 Message-ID: <324@zinfandel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 12:33:45 EST Article-I.D.: zinfande.324 Posted: Fri Feb 1 12:33:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 14:36:04 EST References: <820@reed.UUCP> <249@ihu1m.UUCP> <301@terak.UUCP> Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek CA Lines: 20