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Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition?
- sudmishra 10y agoMy app crashed because someone in my team wasn't using the year provided to compare two dates.
- emodendroket 10y agoA video rental place started saying people owed huge late fees. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/807541/Y2K-bug-tags-video---with-100-year-late-fee.html?pg=all http://www.deseretnews.com/article/807541/Y2K-bug-tags-video...
- swenn 10y agoThere's a problem called 'Year 2038 problem'. It's going to be an interesting year... It has also been discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644292
- MiddleEndian 10y agohttps://www.wired.com/2008/12/zune-freeze-res/ https://www.wired.com/2008/12/zune-freeze-res/ The Zune software stopped working for a day due to a leap year in 2008.
- chris_butcher 10y agoNot confirmed it was because of transition, but the core software that handles the ambulance service in London went down just after midnight http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38482746 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38482746
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- paulrpotts 10y agoThere was an interesting Y2.01K bug on the Apple Newton (fixed with a community-supplied patch) http://newtonpoetry.com/2009/05/28/newton-2010-bug-fixed-users-rejoice/ http://newtonpoetry.com/2009/05/28/newton-2010-bug-fixed-use...
- eb0la 10y agoSGI IRIX unpatched rejected all login attempts after january 1st, 2000 Not a crash per se, but would require to stop the host and go single user to roll back the date to 1972 if you were unable to patch it (like my SGI indigo workstation EOLED before y2k)
- scottydelta 10y agoNot exactly because of year transition but because of a leap second issue, CloudFlare had some DNS outage on 1st Jan, 2017 : https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affe...