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What's a Cinderella problem? I'm assuming it's a reference to the midnight deadline.



The code behaves differently after some event happens.

Midnight. Y2K. Daylight Savings Time change. Leap Day. Congress changes when Daylight Savings Time happens and one component in the system didn't know about it. Year 2038 problem.


2038 is going to be a fun one, isn't it? :)


Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?

Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!

Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!


Funny quote. I love that dogs and cats living together came after the dead rising from the grave. Not sure I'd put them in this order. :)


ICL George let operators flick a switch to make the current day have 60 hours until the switch was flicked back.




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