• init@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Didn’t we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?

    EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already

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      11 months ago

      The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?

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      11 months ago

      This mistake was made in the 70s when time was added to UNIX (or maybe already with Multics, idk)