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S Sandbartender Grand Member (1 year) The North Coast Joined: Oct 02, 2018 Posts: 282	S Sandbartender Posted posted on Thu, Jan 16, 2020 2:07 PM On 2020-01-16 09:06, MadDogMike wrote: I got the full on geek reason why the "New Topics..." button doesn't work for those who need to know that sort of thing. When TC was first set up in it's current format in 2002, Hanford wanted a few posts to be "sticky", to always be at the top of their forum. To do that, he changed their posting date WAY into the future in 2020. But then those posts always came up as a new topic every time you pushed the button. See he re-wrote the code to exclude any posts made in 2020. Now that has come around to bite us in the butt :lol: He has reposted those "sticky" posts as 2040 but he needs to re-write the code to exclude 2040 posts instead of 2020 posts :) Be forewarned, this problem will come up again in 2040 :wink: That's awesome! I love weird coding problems that people just didn't anticipate, especially with dates. LOL My pop and his engineers worked double shifts for WEEKS before Y2K to try and find all the Yr=(XX) - two digit year coding in their school's operating systems. Maybe Hanford should go optimistic and shoot for 2060 instead of 2040. :) [ Edited by: Sandbartender 2020-01-16 14:08 ]

On 2020-01-16 09:06, MadDogMike wrote:
I got the full on geek reason why the "New Topics..." button doesn't work for those who need to know that sort of thing. When TC was first set up in it's current format in 2002, Hanford wanted a few posts to be "sticky", to always be at the top of their forum. To do that, he changed their posting date WAY into the future in 2020. But then those posts always came up as a new topic every time you pushed the button. See he re-wrote the code to exclude any posts made in 2020. Now that has come around to bite us in the butt :lol: He has reposted those "sticky" posts as 2040 but he needs to re-write the code to exclude 2040 posts instead of 2020 posts :) Be forewarned, this problem will come up again in 2040 :wink:

That's awesome! I love weird coding problems that people just didn't anticipate, especially with dates. LOL

My pop and his engineers worked double shifts for WEEKS before Y2K to try and find all the Yr=(XX) - two digit year coding in their school's operating systems.

Maybe Hanford should go optimistic and shoot for 2060 instead of 2040. :)

[ Edited by: Sandbartender 2020-01-16 14:08 ]

Post #800098 by Sandbartender on Thu, Jan 16, 2020 2:07 PM