Text Messaging Year 2016 Bug

January 4, 2010 by Ed Brindley · Leave a Comment
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Forget about the Mayan Calendar 2012 doomsday! Some mobile users are seeing the year 2016 on messages delivered in 2010. The Mayans had December 21, 2012 as 13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count. Is the 2016 bug a result of bad string parsing? Poor binary to BCD conversion? The plot thickens…

[via WMExperts]

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    • Ed Says...

      Forget about the Mayan Calendar 2012 doomsday! Some mobile users are seeing the year 2016 on messages delivered in 2010. The Mayans had December 21, 2012 as 13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count. Is the 2016 bug a result of bad string parsing? Poor binary to BCD conversion? The plot thickens...[via WMExperts]