Y2K!
“Here’s the world famous computer programmer, placing a test order at the dot com site he works for, at Y2K + one second. (note the ball that just dropped on the TV) Will it work? WILL IT WORK!?!?!?!”
Actually, it didn’t work! The order showed as placed on Jan 1, 1999! But it wasn’t a Y2K problem. Some bonehead had used the unbelievably arcane and incorrect “IYYY” date format on the order confirmation page, which uses all these crazy week numbering rules (defined by ISO8610) to determine that it really isn’t the new year if there hasn’t been a Thursday yet. What? Who wants that? It had probably been broken since the site existed and nobody had noticed. So I quickly changed it to the proper “YYYY” and all was well.
Any of the other geeks out there have a good story from that (not very) fateful night?
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Yeah I used to work for this company that needed their payroll system remediated, so they hired these 2 assholes to do the job, but instead of doing anything they did nothing and quit after three weeks. I wonder what happened to those guys?
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I\’m sure nothing good. It sounds like they don\’t have much dedication or company spirit.