Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition?
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Not 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-affe...
SGI 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)
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)
My app crashed because someone in my team wasn't using the year provided to compare two dates.
A video rental place started saying people owed huge late fees. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/807541/Y2K-bug-tags-video...
There'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://www.wired.com/2008/12/zune-freeze-res/
The Zune software stopped working for a day due to a leap year in 2008.
The Zune software stopped working for a day due to a leap year in 2008.
Not 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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There 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-use...