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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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    Kevin Fox
  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.