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Ralith on June 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

One of my favorites, encountered in the wild: Your system will never need to handle a time before 1970.

hartez on June 18, 2012 [–]

Ran into a similar one about ten years ago; a medical records system with the assumption that you wouldn't need dates before 1/1/1900.

You know who goes to the doctor a lot? Centegenarians.

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