[HN Gopher] Time formatting and storage bugs
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       Time formatting and storage bugs
        
       Author : cpeterso
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-12-26 18:31 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | nickburlett wrote:
       | A few years back I discovered that the third-party licensing
       | files we had used in the '90s would roll over in 2016. The format
       | used four ASCII digits for the number of days in an otherwise
       | binary file and the epoch was the founding of the licensing
       | company, sometime in 1988. If they had just used a 32-bit integer
       | instead it would have saved me a lot of headache!
        
         | cpeterso wrote:
         | How did you fix the bug? Did you need new licensing files?
        
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