A program bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon(catb.org)
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A program bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html
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Once a coworker found a bug that would not happen in the mornings - a timestamp was being rounded instead of truncated so in the afternoon it would round off to the next day.
Another similar anedocte: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
Another similar anedocte: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
A bit off-topic, but am I the only one who always sees character encoding problems on that web site? Check this out for a particularly egregious example:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/BNF.html
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/BNF.html
Are you using Safari?
Even if not, your browser is ignoring the encoding tag. Change the encoding to ISO-8859-1 or ISO-Latin-1 or ISO Windows or whatever your browser calls it...
Even if not, your browser is ignoring the encoding tag. Change the encoding to ISO-8859-1 or ISO-Latin-1 or ISO Windows or whatever your browser calls it...
no it doesn't. the page does NOT have the encoding tag. so this is a matter of different defaults. safari, ff, and chrome have utf8 as the default. I guess IE has Western or smth
Firefox, same problem on that page, changing encoding solves it.
I liked the CERN story at the end. Imagine having to factor that into your experiments.
The second story is great.