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@hub Glad they came up properly after the downtime! You followed the #y2k sticker advice! :)
best buy sticker saying remember to turn your computer off before midnight 12/31/99
#y2k @Hubert Figuière

Who else worked #y2k?

I was at UUNET Canada, an ISP and had to work from 9-3am testing scripts after midnight. Spoiler: they all worked fine.

No pics of the night but found this one from my first day in 1997. I had to label each end of these ethernet cables between two banks of switches. #networking

self portrait, 1997. I'm standing in front of two production switches with a snakes nest of ethernet wires between them.
#networking #y2k

I have tried to explain some of the issues with #2038 and time_t. And some about #Y2K

revk.uk/2024/03/2038.html

I mean, maybe boost it a bit if people need to know this shit?!

Close-up of an expiration date embossed on a red surface, reading "EXP END 06/28".

2038

This may be slightly topical now as we have seen a seriously surprising number of leap year issues this year, or so it seems. See  https://...
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#y2k

as someone who had to fix #y2k bugs, I’m less than thrilled that you call it 24.2 instead of 2024.2, or use #semver.
#semver #y2k

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