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We thought Y2K38 would be the next big industry challenge, but I expect a lot of things are going to go wrong with a change with just a year or two of notice.

I love that this is happening, but I'm pretty certain a lot of random things are going to break when the cutover happens.



When they shifted the transition time by a month a few years back I remember it causing grief. I had to get rid of an alarm clock that was hard-wired for the old cutover. There were a few other minor inconveniences. Random things definitely broke.


The way they do it is just so self-destructive. Changing the definition of timezone, not just changing to existing one... That is so lovely corner case to remember forever... Idiots...


Nah. We are getting good at this; we "just" did it in 2007.




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