Billennium's Over - Anything Break?

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The billennium party at OpenProjects.Net rocked! Check out the log for the whole event over here. Please don't forget to use one of the mirrors. Thanks :-)" Well, anyone have anything break due to the rollover?

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Oh yeah...

[SamMichaels]

I stored the date as a 9 character string in the MySQL table. Oops.

I increased it to 10 chars but now it doesn't sort it correctly. Ooops.

I had the expire date on the cookies set to "999999999". Ooops.

I'm sure loads more will pop up.

The Y2k+1 "bug" really got me.

A possible connection?

[acb]

Hmmm... the Melbourne General Post Office was gutted by fire at around the same time as the Billennium. Do you suppose...?

An entire HD

[bee-yotch]

Now that you mention it one of my hard drives completely stopped working. At first I thought it was because i had it sitting on my floor and I stepped on it. I didn't even realize that it was probably from the whole 1 billion thing. Man, what was I thinking?

Re:really small stuff

[G-funk]

You could just prepend a 0 to the front of the old filenames, and it'll sort them all correctly.

It's attitudes like that that get us all into trouble mister! That sort of talking till get us all into trouble! You should know that 13 and 013 are different numbers, one being 13, and the other being 11 :-) Of course 011 is 9 but I digress :-)

Anything Break? DID YOU NOT NOTICE?

[Lord Bitman]

It's the GOD DAMN APOCOLYPSE Outside! Dont any of you guys ever even open a Window!? sheesh... after all those rants about how the military should switch to linux, the world ended yesterday.
Well anyway, I declare myself God until further notice.

Re:Anything Break? DID YOU NOT NOTICE?

[PrometheuSx11]

while its true, that i have not infact looked outside today, I'm ninty nine percent sure he's lying folks.

I mean, i can still connect to slashdot...

so that's got to mean he's lying right?
though i dont want to piss of this god too, cause that really came and bit me on the erse last time...

damnit, this better not be some kinda joke, cause I'm gonna have to go outside now.

.. now where the heck was that door again?

Break? well.. SWAT broke in.

[Anonymous Coward]

We celebrated epoch + 1e9 with firecrackers. 1.5 - 2 hours later we discovered how much of a bad idea that was. The local anti-terror police (I guess it can be translated to SWAT) came busting in our door - neighbours had reported hearing gunfire.

And the norwegian police don't usually come busting in peoples homes with armed rifles :)

Tonight I'm gonna party...

[Salsaman]

...like it's time_t 1E9 !!

(Shamelesly ripped from ntk.net).

Nothing Broke -- Damn

[LittleGuy]

I was expecting to have everything reset back to 1970. I was looking forward to men again on the moon and the Boston Bruins having a championship-caliber team.

Then again, I could do without the Vietnam War Redux. Oh well.

Re:Anything Break?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, 4-bit computers are still commonly used in small things - like microwaves, VCRs, remotes. Lucikly, I haven't seen the infamous "end-of-the-week bug" occuring at the day 7 rollover.

Re:broken CVSup on FreeBSD

[dsfox]

This bug may have caused the dates on some of the files in the XFree86 source tree to be reset to Jan 1, 1970. Or maybe not.

my propane grill...

[neitzert]

My propane grill died about 1 minute shy of the Billennium causing me to pan fry burgers for our Epoch party...