Re:Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
by Ralith on Monday June 18, 2012 @04:27PM
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One of my favorites, encountered in the wild: Your system will never need to handle a time before 1970.
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Ran into a similar one about ten years ago; a medical records system with the assumption that you wouldn't need dates before 1/1/1900.
You know who goes to the doctor a lot? Centegenarians.