Re: Welcome to the year 19100
I had to fix many instances of that in a system for an important government organisation. Annoyingly it had only been written a few years prior.
In our case the dates were often used for generated file names, and they were often placed into fixed size buffers. An extra digit would have caused a lot of buffer overflow errors.
I think about what might have happened every time some idiot says that Y2K was a beat up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
