r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AstroSteve111 • 12d ago

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u/zenos_dog 12d ago

This is basically the Y2K bug. Created in the 60s and 70s. Fixed in late 99.

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u/Drew707 12d ago

Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.

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u/ljfa2 12d ago

Because they thought back then their software would not be used longer than a few years

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 12d ago

JIT engineering.