• Ed (unregistered) in reply to Grovesy

    At a previous company a few years ago, we had a big real time system. All data was (and still is) kept in the database forever. When a record was worked, and did not need to be worked again, instead of marking it "Complete", they set the "Work Again On this Date" field to Christmas 2015. The system is still running. This system was setup 10 years ago. I doubt anybody there even knows this feature exists in the system.

  • (cs) in reply to Grovesy
    Grovesy:
    I remember being a poor Full Time Employee back in 1999, around me contractors milked the companies with rates heading up to £1000pd for some basic SQL work. I was more irate at the fact that some of the contractors had almost no previous work experience... I missed the gravy train

    I saw the future and went contracting, sadly the rate boom had ended and rates have since subsided down to normal levels.

    All those programmers who have written date time WTF’ery we’ve seen on this site are on to something, they are creating their own new ‘millennium bug’, so they can rake it in later. When it comes to 2011/12/31 I want to have enough money to retire in my bank. Let’s band together, programmers unite and create the 2012 bug, we have a whole three years to write crappy code to create world wide panic when we mention it to the world press early in 2011. We can then take those blue chip companies for all they have.

    Anyone with me?

    You could just wait until 2038....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

  • Kiefer (unregistered) in reply to Grovesy
    Grovesy:
    All those programmers who have written date time WTF’ery we’ve seen on this site are on to something, they are creating their own new ‘millennium bug’, so they can rake it in later. When it comes to 2011/12/31 I want to have enough money to retire in my bank. Let’s band together, programmers unite and create the 2012 bug, we have a whole three years to write crappy code to create world wide panic when we mention it to the world press early in 2011. We can then take those blue chip companies for all they have.

    Anyone with me?

    From Wikipedia: The year 2000 problem, popularly known as the "Y2K bug", spawned fears of worldwide economic collapse and an industry of consultants providing last-minute fixes.[13] In addition, it is possible the problem could recur in 2038 (the year 2038 problem), as many Unix systems calculate the time in seconds since 1 January 1970, and store this figure as a 32-bit signed integer, for which the maximum possible value is 231 (2,147,483,648).

    Get ready to milk it for all its worth! Sets up 'Correcting Unix Systems - $2500 p/h' Sign

  • steve (unregistered) in reply to DP

    pplz fuck me i am soo horny, ryan is such a sex machine he is making me crazy

  • stealthfrog (unregistered) in reply to Kiefer

    yes, make it the 2012/12/12 bug so that it is in synch with the end of the Mayan Calendar which the new agers are going on about.

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