Submission + - Y2K bug is back (vanheusden.com)
folkert writes: Back in the previous century, people were afraid they were scared for when the date would change from 1999 to 2000. You see back in that old century, people used to only store two digits for the year and as you can imagine, this will go wrong in the year 2000. Tons of money has been spend to eradict that problem. But one bug stayed under the radar. For at least 26 years no-one noticed that the PDP-11 with BSD could break somewhat. Check the URL for the background and the fix.
