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January 2nd 16, 11:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Oyster outage
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In message , at 16:58:52 on Sat, 2
Jan 2016, Richard J. remarked:
Why are you assuming that this
particular instance was in any way similar to Y2K?
Firstly, because a very similar incident *was* tracked down to that
cause,
You mean there was a very similar incident 16 years ago?
The Nottingham City Transport smartcard issue in around 2006.
But what is special about 1/1/2016 compared to 1/1/2015, 1/1/2014, etc?
Or 1/1/2006 compared to 1/1/2000. There's something about the range
of years for which 1/1/xxxx is recognised, which transcends xxxx=2000.
That's not the millennium bug then. It was about years being held in 2
digits so not able to handle properly to rollover of the century.
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