Yup. Some time after most of the code had been fixed, senior management started reading doomladen articles about Y2K and started demanding more work, more evidence of busyness on something already addressed by then.
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Oh, and there was not a peep out of anyone on March 1 2000. We fixed code for that as well (think about it...) but there was no news-cycle induced crisis about it.
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You got me. What was the issue with March 1, 2000? FWIW, my first Y2K project was in 1983 working for the Australian Dept of Soc Sec. Family Allowance needed to be paid to children born after 31/12/1983 until their 16th birthday and the review date couldn’t be in the past.
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @fatoldduffer and
Wasn’t it actually the leap year that kept the usual rule (as opposed to 1900 and 2100)? So many systems could be set up for a leap year every four years and will be wrong in 2100...
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Replying to @davidmholtom @adrienneleigh and
I’ve found (in non-statistical samples talking to just-graduated IT people) that all know the 4 year rule, many know the 100 year rule and almost no one knows the 1000 year rule (or is it 2000? Can’t recall) It’s part of my lesson of ‘never write your own date library’
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @SQLintheWild and
Yeah it's the rule that Pope Gregory added (3 out of every 100 leap years will be made normal years) to stop the slow drifting of Easter over the centuries, because the solar year is more like 365.24 days than 365.25
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Replying to @arthur_affect @adrienneleigh and
The most interesting thing about it is that when he did it in the 1500s they were already out of sync by about ten days so as countries adopted it they had to jump forward all at once, which is a fertile image for fiction
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The Doctor Who tie-in books have a bad guy called the Eleven Day Empire, a coalition of villains who "should have existed but didn't" thanks to time machinations and seek revenge, and who are based in the eleven days of the English calendar that never happened
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