cairns.com.au— Exactly 10 years after the Y2K bug was expected to crash computers worldwide, Australian Bank of Queensland computers skipped six years ahead to January 1, 2016.
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Wow... an insurance bill may have had the wrong date printed on it.. or someone my not have gotten their credit card bill... END OF THE f**kING WORLD!!!! Pull your head out of your ass. Visa had a major, unforeseen y2k issue (in 1999) that effected ALL of their customers... they fixed it in less than a week... not a single person died.It amazes me that all you assh**es are touting how great you are at preventing disaster when ANY systems engineer with any skills what so ever would NEVER create a mission critical system that ceases to function if someone punches in the wrong date.As my friend who is the foreman for all of the electric distribution stations in my state said: f**kING BULLs**t! I have to pay overtime to have a technician in every station in the state, paid triple time, just so if there happens to be the slightest bit of an issue I don't have a state government s**tting themselves trying to explain why they weren't on top of the problem.If you're trying to convince people that y2k was a big deal then I'm assuming you're still working for the people you robbed out of a major amount of funds by convincing them that y2k was a big deal.
johnsmith3210Jan 3, 2010
Those Australian timezones are waaaaaay ahead of everyone else.
grizzlyb3arJan 4, 2010
No, because the joke would be that australia is actually six years ahead, and struggling with waiting for the rest of the world to catch up! :D
jessterkingJan 4, 2010
over 9000!!!!!!!
Closed AccountJan 4, 2010
Pagans.
Closed AccountJan 4, 2010
Taken from a Slashdot comment:"Could be botched string parsing. Could be binary coded decimals interpreted as binary numbers: BCD encodes two decimal digits in the high and low nibbles of a byte. Therefore BCD 10 is 0001 0000 in binary, which is 16 in decimal."So it seems to be dodgy code.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_coded_decimal" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_coded_decimal</a>
origin415Jan 4, 2010
They would have ran into bigger Y2K problems jumping from 1999 to 2000 if they interpreted it as hex, but maybe its a new system since then.
nepidaeJan 4, 2010
There is no year 20A
ivanmarshJan 5, 2010
Wow... an insurance bill may have had the wrong date printed on it.. or someone my not have gotten their credit card bill... END OF THE f**kING WORLD!!!! Pull your head out of your ass. Visa had a major, unforeseen y2k issue (in 1999) that effected ALL of their customers... they fixed it in less than a week... not a single person died.It amazes me that all you assh**es are touting how great you are at preventing disaster when ANY systems engineer with any skills what so ever would NEVER create a mission critical system that ceases to function if someone punches in the wrong date.As my friend who is the foreman for all of the electric distribution stations in my state said: f**kING BULLs**t! I have to pay overtime to have a technician in every station in the state, paid triple time, just so if there happens to be the slightest bit of an issue I don't have a state government s**tting themselves trying to explain why they weren't on top of the problem.If you're trying to convince people that y2k was a big deal then I'm assuming you're still working for the people you robbed out of a major amount of funds by convincing them that y2k was a big deal.
harshakaranthJan 7, 2010
hahahaha!he meant christmas