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by zoky 954 days ago
Wow, that’s a really stupid bug, especially given the general level of awareness of the Y2K problem at the time the system probably was being built. Whoever the hell looked at a 9 digit timestamp that started with a 9 and said “nah, we’re never gonna need more than 9 digits to store that” should have their programming license revoked.