User: elstaqub

I hate calendar code... is this story censored?

On: Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight

This incident is strangely under-reported, at least as I see it. It's not on CNN's website, for instance. However, here's one good link: http://www.dailytech.com/Lockheeds+F22+Raptor+Gets +Zapped+by+International+Date+Line/article6225c.ht m.

I wrote and shipped some software once that worked fine for almost 6 months, then on April 15th (as I recall) started failing for no apparent reason in Korea only. It turned out to have a bug with Daylight Savings Time in the eastern hemisphere. That hurt. It gave me a heck of a lot of respect for calendar code ever since - I try to minimize it and then test the heck out of what's left.