I know this isn’t any kind of surprise, and yet, well…
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2100 and 2400 will be a shitshow
2038 will certainly be a shit show
Nah.
Same thing happened in 2000 and it was a mouse’s fart.
Because of months of preparation. I know, I was doing it.
And now that every time library has been updated, we’re safe until our grandchildren reimplement those bugs in a language that has not yet been invented.
I’ve already seen reimplementation of 2 digit dates here and there.
I went to uni in the mid 90s when Y2K prep was all the rage, went back to do another degree 20 years later. It was interesting to see the graffiti in the CS toilets. Two digits up to about 1996, four digits for a decade, then back to two.
LOL fuck those guys.
Yeah but I’ll be dead so not my problem lmao
Why
2100 not a leap year (divisible by 100). 2400 is a leap year (divisible by 400). Developing for dates is a minefield.
Now imagine working on non Georgian, and the year is 2060
Then there’s my code, which didn’t even survive the time change.
I worked in broadcasting (programming broadcasting applications), everything is done with PTP (Precise Time Protocol) and TC (timecode) in video. We had to support leap second, it’s not as easy, but in the end, insert black frames for 1s and that’s it.
I hope leap days are handled a bit more sophisticated!
Insert black frames for 24 hours and you’re good to go!
Programming aside, where I live in Southern Europe we have a tradition according to which leap years bring bad luck. After 2020, I don’t know what to expect… nuclear apocalypse maybe?
I’m not worried about my code, I’m (very slightly) worried about all the date libraries I used because I didn’t want code that shit again for the billionth time.
Your comment made me go look at the source for moment.js. It has “leap” 13 times and the code looks correct. I assume they test stuff like this.
Yeah, I’m generally using the common data/time libraries in most (if not all) languages and I’m pretty sure they’ve all been through more than 1 leap year at this point. I just never 100% trust the code I don’t control - 99.9% maybe, but never 100.
I just never 100% trust the code I don’t control
I never 100% trust the code I do control. Partially because a lot of it is inherited but also because I know corners were cut but I can’t always remember when and where
