Roland Perry wrote:
In message
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ember.org, at 23:52:54 on Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Recliner
remarked:

Y2K type bugs date from software designed 40 or more years ago

Here's another I came across by chance today:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03...day_confirmed/

Wonderful! I'm pretty sure that even my distinctly amateurish code does
date checks in a smarter way than that (just subtract a date from today and
see if the answer is greater than 365 -- the system clock at least should
know all about leap years).