I worked on the "Y2K bug" and a lot of money was spent to deal with the short sightedness of programmers. YK38 will actually start impacting people much sooner than 2038. For example if a date field holds the estimated date of your retirement it will already have a problem, especially as the retirement date for people slips further and further into the future.
PS. In the early 90's I wrote some of the code that did the 3D modelling for Nuclear Engineering Finite Element Analysis tools. In 2001 they told me that my code did not need to be "fixed" for Y2K.
PPS. I'd love to see the government's response to this! "For example if a date field holds the estimated date of your retirement it will already have a problem, especially as the retirement date for people slips further and further into the future." They're currently already trying their best to screw pensioners LMAO
I worked on the "Y2K bug" and a lot of money was spent to deal with the short sightedness of programmers. YK38 will actually start impacting people much sooner than 2038. For example if a date field holds the estimated date of your retirement it will already have a problem, especially as the retirement date for people slips further and further into the future.
PS. In the early 90's I wrote some of the code that did the 3D modelling for Nuclear Engineering Finite Element Analysis tools. In 2001 they told me that my code did not need to be "fixed" for Y2K.
PPS. I'd love to see the government's response to this! "For example if a date field holds the estimated date of your retirement it will already have a problem, especially as the retirement date for people slips further and further into the future." They're currently already trying their best to screw pensioners LMAO
PS. I highly recommend you write your take on it all, given your experience. It’ll make an interesting opposite to my take on this.
This video on Programming Mistakes tells the "date f**k up story quite well. Also, watch the Kennel Club mistake as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9clBHENy4Q&t=361s
Very interesting indeed! Thank you 👍
So, interesting times ahead for those who, unlike me, won’t have yet popped their clogs. Oh well.