At 10:43 AM -0600 1/7/10, Stephen Craig Evans wrote: > I am VERY curious to learn how these happened... Only using the last > digit of the year? Hard for me to believe. Maybe it's in a single API > and somebody tried to be too clever with some bit-shifting.
My wife says that in the lead-up to the year 2000 she caught some programmers "fixing" Y2K bugs by continuing to store year numbers in two digits and then just prefixing output with 19 if the value was greater than some two digit number and prefixing output with 20 if the value was less than or equal to that two digit number. Never underestimate programmer creativity. Never overestimate programmer precision. -- Larry Kilgallen _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________
