Re:2010 bug hits millions of Germans
by Timothee on Thursday January 07, 2010 @01:43PM
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Does anyone know what the nature of the bug is? The article lacked on this aspect unfortunately.
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I thought this was discussed earlier this week, but I can't find a link anywhere. The representation of the date is ambiguous about decimal/hexadecimal. So some devices are reading "10" as equal to 16, yielding the year 2016 instead of 2010.
Re:2010 bug hits millions of Germans
by aarongough on Thursday January 07, 2010 @02:40PM
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Perhaps they thought they would improve on the 2 digit method of representing years, and used a single digit method instead?
ie: 2009(9) -> 2010(0)
I would be pretty sad if it was a bug as obvious as this though. No idea what the real bug is likely to be...
None of the many German articles I read about the topic mentioned the exact nature of the bug.