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Re: Date math problem in Leopard
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Re: Date math problem in Leopard


  • Subject: Re: Date math problem in Leopard
  • From: Jeff Jungblut <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:10:06 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Date math problem in Leopard

on 3/14/08 11:52 PM, Philip Aker at email@hidden wrote:

> On 08-03-14, at 20:22, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>
>> On Mar 14, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
>
>>> Uh, because Leopard has the conversion bug and Tiger doesn't?  It's
>>> a known problem -- adding more than 2^30 seconds to a date will
>>> give a bogus result.
>
>> How does a bug like that creep into a product when it didn't exist
>> in a previous version?  And how did it get past SQA?
>
> Because they use AppleScript to calculate bug fix dates?

Thanks to Chris and everyone else.  I look forward to the update being
shipped in 2038.

:)

--
Jeff Jungblut
email@hidden
Senior Graphic Designer & Web Developer
Uptown Publications


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