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John Apa wrote,
> Y2k is only a problem because it was
> "discovered", for lack of a better word, late in the game. We've learned
> that we need to look ahead and write code that won't fail at a
> predetermined date/time.
John betrays his age -- he must be a younger guy :-)
Being guilty of writing Y2K-noncompliant code 30 years ago myself (for
different employers), I can vouch that the problem was not "unknown" and
did not need "discovery" later on: we all knew what we were doing,
namely, cutting corners to get those programs to run in the teensy
memories of the day. We knew the code wouldn't work on 01jan2000; what
we *didn't* know was that our software would still be in use then!
*All* date-based code will eventually "fail at a predetermined date/time"
-- it's just a question of how far out the failure date is; back then, we
thought 3 decades was quite long enough. Should we be writing code that's
Y10K compliant now? :-)
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