• eatspeas (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    Its no millennium bug. 1909 .. eat by Sept 19th 2009. they are just missing some punctuation.

  • ISO 8601 Advocate (unregistered) in reply to t
    t:
    ...of course, had they just written the date properly "19 Sep 09", even a lack of spaces would still give a clear, unambiguous BBdate.

    September 9th, 19 AD?

  • Original Idea (unregistered)

    Hey I just thought of a brillant idea -- it might not be September of 1909; it might be September 19 of '09 -- that is, 2009. TRWTF is that no one thought of that earlier.

  • Bob... Billy Bob (unregistered)

    Hey guys,

    The expiry date of that bag of peas is really September 19th, 2009.

    Just thought I'd clear that up for everybody since there seems to be a lot of confusion here.

  • Internet Roadkill on Information Superhighway (unregistered) in reply to m0ffx
    m0ffx:
    TRWTF is that Vista has decided to change the classic

    "Abort, Retry, Ignore"

    to

    "Cancel, Try Again, Continue"

    That's because all three in the first group are so downbeat and negative (abort! retry! ignore!), and other three are more upbeat and positive.

    Tech newspeak for you.

  • Deiwos (unregistered)

    Believe me, I have read through every comment and I can't believe NO ONE has noticed the glaring error with this WTF!

    The date on the peas is ACTUALLY September 19, 2009 ('09') rather than 1909. It's just that there is a space missing between the dd and yy fields.

    How could ANYONE have missed this? It is lucky I got here in time to sort this mess out, who knows what might have happened if I commented any later.

  • Douche (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    Who says thats a bug?

    SEP 1909 = 19th September 2009

  • rd (unregistered) in reply to Karl von L.

    No, it's not rocket science. But rocket scientists are usually intelligent and highly educated while any kid who has played a few video games can get a job as a programmer.

  • Random832 (unregistered)

    I can't believe no-one has mentioned yet that it's September 19th 2009.

  • Random832 (unregistered)

    I can't believe no-one has mentioned yet that it's September 19th 2009.

  • Ike (unregistered)

    I Hope B.L. didn't need the 'w' or 'y' characters...

  • Just Another WTF (unregistered) in reply to MMSS
    MMSS:
    looks like he was using Inuktitut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut_syllabics

    Actually its Cree... the > with the little circle on top is not used in Inuktitut. Hard to believe I finally got to be a grammar nazi in Inuktitut

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom
    Anders Hesselbom:
    It is good to see the old millennium bug. I have missed you. Thanks for all the work you have generated!
    Not really a bug - alot of products are printed only with the Month, Day, and 2-digit year - and the systems are designed that way on purpose.

    In the example provided, the Exp date is September 19th, 2009 (SEP 1909). It would behoove them to put another space between the "19" and the "09".

  • M L (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom
    Anders Hesselbom:
    It is good to see the old millennium bug. I have missed you. Thanks for all the work you have generated!

    Except it's not. Its saying "Sell by 19th of September 2009". Don't forget that sell-by dates are always a DATE, not a month.

  • 008 (unregistered)

    Windows- No Disk

    An exception 0xc0000013 occured: The disk expired September 1909.

  • funkenstein (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    no dubya!

  • Lumberjack (unregistered) in reply to Mii
    Mii:
    The "Windows - No Disk" error is actually a virus/trojan.. you might want to run a virus scan...

    Er... No, it isn't.

    This dialog is caused by calling some MFC function (like GetDiskFreeSpaceEx()) on a volume when there is no physical media in the volume. That is, whenever you see this dialog, it means you are running a program or service that, as part of its functionality, wants to access volumes but that was not tested with empty volumes. (Otherwise, the programmers would've presumably fixed this bug.)

    Last we checked, this issue has been somewhat acknowledged by Microsoft but they don't seem intent on fixing it. They think it's OK for function calls to pop inane dialog boxes as a side effect. (The workaround is to call SetErrorMode(SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS), but that sucks ass for us because that affects the whole process.)

    Many programs are/were causing this issue, like some anti-virus software and even iTunes. It is not a stretch to imagine that a virus could also cause this dialog to appear but it's not the sole cause.

  • Confused (unregistered)

    And No Y or y in the alphabet in this example....

  • Paul Berry (unregistered)

    The real WTF with Apple Software Update is it always performs another update check the moment it has finished installing the latest updates. It never finds anything.

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    It's actually Sep 19 09 (2009). It's missing a space, that's all.

  • Spivonious (unregistered)

    Silly me, I thought "oh that's just Sep 19th, 2009" completely missing the lack of a space.

  • funkenstein (unregistered) in reply to funkenstein
    funkenstein:
    no dubya!

    NO NIGGERS OR LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!

  • Jack Satan (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom

    That's not the millenium bug, it's just a missing space :)

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to Anders Hesselbom
    Anders Hesselbom:
    It is good to see the old millennium bug. I have missed you. Thanks for all the work you have generated!

    What millennium bug? Sep 19th '09

  • Americanadian (unregistered) in reply to Just Another WTF

    Actually, it is Inuktitut. the four symbols put together in that order spell "nu - na - vu - t." What's that spell? The newest Canadian territory. Cross-reference it with the Inuktitut symbol chart here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Inuktitut.svg

  • Tyr (unregistered)

    The alphabet is missing 'W'.

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