9 Sep
2022
9 Sep
'22
6:06 p.m.
Well, you can imagine what happened when the leading
digit changed
from an ASCII "9" to an ASCII "1". Oops.
I first saw a time-overflow bug more than 60 years ago. Accounting
went haywire in the Bell Labs' comp center on day 256 of the year,
when the encoded output of a new time clock reached the sign bit.
Doug