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by vmilner 94 days ago
"And so the Y10K problem was born"
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I just had a Y10K problem. Customer data was using 9999-12-31 23:59:59 as a placeholder value, and our app crashed converting from the customer's timezone to UTC. I learned that Python datetime can't handle Y10K.
I’d better go brush up on my COBOL
Programmer-Archaeologist will be quite a coveted position 300 gigaseconds from now.