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25 February 2023 at 5:41 pm
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I remember a similar Y2K bug in a clock display. The coder appended the year to “19”, rather than adding to 1900. On 2000-01-01 the display read 1 Jan 19100.
Takeaway message: character strings are not numbers, even when they look like them.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by
Dr Paul Leyland.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by
Dr Paul Leyland.