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strange Millennium-like bug in 2020

  • 15 January 2020
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I was amazed this could still be a thing!
https://nypost.com/2020/01/03/city-parking-meters-wont-read-credit-cards-due-to-software-glitch/

 

The Y2K bug has struck Big Apple drivers — two decades later.

Credit cards are being declined at city parking meters across the five boroughs after a software bug took the payment option offline in the New Year, according to the city’s Department of Transportation.


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Funny.

Along similar lines - you shouldn’t date things like checks with just a “20” for the year… it can then be changed to be any date this century

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