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In article <19...@dover.sps.mot.com>, wat...@darla.sps.mot.com (Strawberry
Jammer) says:
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>In article <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> dgh@unify.UUCP (David Harrington) writes:
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>}Unfortunately, I think date routines got smarter over the years :-(  :-).
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>Well at least on Jan 1, 1980 that wasn't so, at least those of us who worked
>for DEC had to wait a couple of weeks to get the correct paychecks because
>the TOPS-10 system used for payroll had 197X hard coded into it.

I worked for a credit union as a systems programmer in 1979.  On New
Years Day all the applications people were called in because all their
applications had started failing.  Believe it or not, their date fields
had only one digit for the year!

The funny part is that the following New Years, they had to be called
back in for exactly the same reason.  They had come in and just inserted
'IF YEAR = "0" THEN...' into the code.  A whole year passed and no one
thought to fix the thing!