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TIL that when the year 2022 began, many systems using 32-bit integers encountered problems, which are now collectively known as the Y2K22 bug. Systems using an integer to represent a 10 character date-based field, where the leftmost two characters are the 2-digit year, ran into an issue on 1 January

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