On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:29:32 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>We had well over 20 years of warning on Y2K; management preferred to ignore
>it. Apres moi le deluge (the balloon won't go up before I retire.)
>
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum.
As I recall a design meeting, circa 1980:
gil> We should store the year as 4 digits.
Boss> But the system DATE function only returns 2.
gil> We can front-end it, prefixing "19". When DATE gets better,
we can demolish the scaffold.
Boss> Too much effort to code (and document), and waste of storage.
Our product isn't designed to last so long.
[It did. But Boss prevailed.]
-- gil
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