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Y2K bug in action
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:04:18 GMT
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mattdm@+NoMoreSpam+mattdm.org
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Discovered and squashed a Y2K-related problem today. The weekly full backup
on our (soon to be decommissioned but still limping along) VMS failed,
complaining "Volume label too long." Turns out that the volume label for a
tape must be six letters or less. Whoever wrote the backup script (some long
forgotten work-study student?) generated the label by concatenating the
year, month, and day, and then stripping off the leading "19". Whoops --
what if it's a leading 20?
Rather than looking for the proper way to remove any two characters, I just
changed it to 20. If anyone is still using this machine in one hundred
years, they can deal with it. :)
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) I just finished reading William Gibson's "All Tomorrow's Parties" (Which, BTW,is a pretty good book, albeit with a weak ending.). In the book, one of the funny things that he postulates is that in the future, there pretty much will not be any (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Y2K bug in action
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| (...) Why did you not choose to be a craftsman and fix the problem correctly? The true craftsman makes the back side of the dresser just as good as the front, it matters not that there is no one to see it, for the craftsman would know, and be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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