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Old January 6th 16, 09:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Oyster outage
On 05/01/2016 19:34, wrote:
In article , d () wrote:


In a back end system certainly. In a smartcard with perhaps only a
few KB of RAM possibly not.

The time when dates had to be so compressed passed before the advent of
smartcards, believe me.


Not true - when you are dealing with billions of transactions and/or
millions of smart cards whose cost is proportionate to the storage on
them there is still pressure to minimise the space that data occupies
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