[LEAPSECS] php breaks if UTC has no leap seconds?

[p at 2038bug.com]

WH-WH-Whaaaat????

Contractors spent millions of hours wading through hundreds of millions of lines of code
adding missing century digits.

Thousands of Cobal programmers lost there jobs
after Y2K.

Every organisation that managed any kind of
computer system had to do testing to verify
that the systems would work through Y2K and
replace them otherwise.

My company managed such a system.

Were you living under a rock then????

-paul



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-----Original Message-----
From: Gerard Ashton <ashtongj at comcast.net>
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:03:10 
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Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] php breaks if UTC has no leap seconds?

On 12/10/2010 10:15 AM, Peter Vince wrote:

> Hello Paul,

>

>       I'd be interested if you have some examples of of Y2K bugs that

> were fixed before they became a problem.  In my very limited

> experience, I wasn't affected by any, nor aware of them.

>

>       Peter

>

>

> On 10 December 2010 01:55, Paul Sheer<p at 2038bug.com>  wrote:

>> Everybody said y2k was going to break everything.  In the end, it was a

>> non-event :)

>>

>> It was a non-event BECAUSE the industry spent enormous $$ to fix all the

>> zillions of Y2K bugs in time.

>>

>> It was still a disaster from an expendature point of view.

>>

>> (Does anyone need to even explain this????)

>>

>> -paul

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I worked for IBM at the time. Many older personal computers in use by 
staff were discarded because it would have been too difficult to teach 
all the staff the special tricks to keep them limping along when 2000 
arrived.

Gerry Ashton
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