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Billennium's Over - Anything Break?

Posted by michael on from the anti-climax dept.

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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  1. really small stuff by KFury · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use a thingy that portions my web logfiles into daily files, each prepended with the current unix timestamp. I found that scripts I run to do stuff with the most recent day's logfile broke because 1000000000access_log.gz comes before 999999999access_log.gz.

    The simple solution is to move the old 999 files to another directory. This problem wouldn't have cropped up since 1973 when it passed eight 9s, and won't happen again for another 300 years when it passes ten 9s.

    Still, a bug's a bug, and that's one more than I had in the new millenium.

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  2. Re:Anything Break? by rchatterjee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We hope but remember what happened for Y2K, a mad dash to rewrite 20 - 30 year old COBOL and other progs that listed the date in only 2 digits and the original programmers thought would be replaced years before Y2K came up.

  3. Re:Anything Break? by xcomputer_man · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Hmm..true, but in the past 20 years we have progressed from approximately 4 bits to 32 bits. It would be ridiculous to think that 37 years from now, 32-bit computers would not be living in museums. I think the greatest concern would be die-hard win95 addicts, who would have to be content with the final blue screen of death when this happens.

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  4. Re:I thought I missed a party there... by ayjay29 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    geeks just don't DO "regular parties!"
    They do over here in Sweden!
    Our staff dos are a legend, and other tech companis here do the same. I have been to a lot of great parties, free food + drink, DJs, live music. Some of us even talk to girls. It must be part of the Swedish culture that once in a while you turn off your PC, grab a cold one from the fridge, hang out with your buddies and chat about things other than your OS.

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  5. My employer got bitten by Glorat · · Score: 2, Interesting
    My very major company whom I am working for this summer got bitten. They had to release an emergency turnover/fix to fix it. Apparently, they got stuck with an old version of the Perl Date::Manip library (version 1.33 I believe)


    Apparently, this version of the library could not perform the "epoch" for seconds beyond the billenium and would report a year 1000 years too early! Of course, this bug was fixed in 1.34 and in fact the current version of Date::Manip is 1.40. Unfortunately, this company doesn't update as often as it should since upgrades can break backward compatibility and need extensive testing. But there you have it, a top company got bitten!