Re: first Y2001 bug I've seen

From: Mike Masnick (mike@techdirt.com)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2001 - 11:34:27 PST


Heh heh. Confession time. Last year on Jan. 1 when we realized that
Techdirt wasn't exactly Y2K compliant, our quick fix was to hard code the
year. Luckily, we remembered that this last Thursday and realized it might
cause problems today, and implemented a real fix (as yet untested for 2001).

 -Mike

At 12:13 PM 1/1/01 -0500, Matt Jensen wrote:
>I knew it! I figured that X percent of Y2K 'fixes' actually looked like
>this:
>
>IF (YEAR >'30') OR (YEAR ='00')
>THEN CENTURY='20th'
>ELSE CENTURY='19th'
>
>"Well, that covers us for another year." :-)
>
>-Matt Jensen
> NewsBlip.com
> Seattle
>
>
>On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, John Klassa wrote:
>
>>
>> Somebody mentioned Pan-Am so I was trying to guess their URL... I went
>> to:
>>
>> http://www.pan-american.com/
>>
>> and laughed at the banner:
>>
>> Airfares For Less
>> January 1, 101
>> Airline ticket discounts for individuals and groups!
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>



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