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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by emodendroket on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:33AM (#13309340)
A video rental place started saying people owed huge late fees. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/807541/Y2K-bug-tags-video...
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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by swenn on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:39AM (#13309388)
There's a problem called 'Year 2038 problem'. It's going to be an interesting year... It has also been discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644292
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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by paulrpotts on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @11:15AM (#13310116)
There was an interesting Y2.01K bug on the Apple Newton (fixed with a community-supplied patch) http://newtonpoetry.com/2009/05/28/newton-2010-bug-fixed-use...
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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by chris_butcher on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:50AM (#13309894)
Not confirmed it was because of transition, but the core software that handles the ambulance service in London went down just after midnight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38482746

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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by MiddleEndian on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:16AM (#13309633)
https://www.wired.com/2008/12/zune-freeze-res/

The Zune software stopped working for a day due to a leap year in 2008.

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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by scottydelta on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:05AM (#13316773)
Not exactly because of year transition but because of a leap second issue, CloudFlare had some DNS outage on 1st Jan, 2017 : https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affe...
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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by eb0la on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:10PM (#13314154)
SGI IRIX unpatched rejected all login attempts after january 1st, 2000

Not a crash per se, but would require to stop the host and go single user to roll back the date to 1972 if you were unable to patch it (like my SGI indigo workstation EOLED before y2k)

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Re:Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition? by sudmishra on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:07AM (#13309193)
My app crashed because someone in my team wasn't using the year provided to compare two dates.
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