Y1K Compliant?

[plonq]

Behind the cut tag is a snapshot from the corner of one of our system screens.  I never noticed this until today, when the screen was projected up on the big screen in front of the training lab, and then this was the first thing I noticed.



A blast from the past?  Didn't we do 1904 already?

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[chipuni.livejournal.com]

On my screen, at least, that's all black.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Heheh, that's funny... to notice 4 years later ^^
Kind of reminds me when the 80 were done and the 90s began, you'd see so many forms like this
Year: 1989   

[plonq.livejournal.com]

It's in dark(ish) green text on a black background, which might make it very hard to read indeed in some settings (depending on monitor gamma and lighting).

One of our applications that goes against some industry reference files puts the current date and time up in the top right corner of the screen, and this one thinks that it is 1904/10/06 11:28. I'd raise alarm bells about this, but I'm pretty sure that from this particular subsystem it's just a harmless glitch, and would come pretty low on the priority list of fixes.

[lowen-kind.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. An AAR inventory from 1904?!?

I didn't know EMD was around or GE wasa making loco back then. And what all about those spine cars and spiffy covered hoppers.

And not a steam loco on the roster. I's say your RR was ahead of the times, especially with computers. You guys beat ENIAC by a modest 50 years or so. ;=3