{"id":17387,"date":"2020-01-14T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2020-01-14T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T22:04:44","slug":"a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17387","title":{"rendered":"A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called \u201cwindowing\u201d, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/1999\/03\/19\/common-y2k-quick-fix-last-decades\/\">estimated 80 per cent<\/a> of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWindowing, even during Y2K, was the worst of all possible solutions because it kicked the problem down the road,\u201d says Dylan Mulvin at the London School of Economics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2229238-a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now\/\">A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now | New Scientist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called \u201cwindowing\u201d, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[645,1414],"class_list":["post-17387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-history","tag-y2k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}