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

[Paul Sheer]

I'm getting emotional to prepare for Y2038

Please don't take offense

-paul


On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 16:21 +0000, p at 2038bug.com wrote:


> 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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