Ask HN: What software crashed because of year transition?

6 points by sudmishra ↗ HN

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My app crashed because someone in my team wasn't using the year provided to compare two dates.
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SGI IRIX unpatched rejected all login attempts after january 1st, 2000

Not a crash per se, but would require to stop the host and go single user to roll back the date to 1972 if you were unable to patch it (like my SGI indigo workstation EOLED before y2k)