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LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs
SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that
Bootnotes03 Jan 2025 | 61
Y2K
The infamous bug caused by early programmers adopting a date format of DD/MM/YY to use less memory than would be required by a format of DD/MM/YYYY.
25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then
Comment With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash
Software02 Jan 2025 | 122
The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers
Retro Tech Week ...though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down
Software17 Jan 2024 | 127
Are we springing into a Y2K-class nightmare?
Permanent daylight savings could be the glitch of the (new) century
Offbeat16 Mar 2022 | 214
Biting the hand that feeds IT
