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		einhverfr on June 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time 36: Continguous timezones are no more than an hour apart. (aka we don't need to test what happens to the avionics when you fly over the International Date Line)

gregholmberg on June 19, 2012 [–]

It's a recurring problem, too. These examples are twenty-two years apart.

"Aircraft software can be serious business" http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-b...

"The [F22 Raptor IDL] post-incident report" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=224098&cid=181501...

"[undetected software bug in the] Northrop F-20 Tigershark laser inertial navigation system" http://www.f20a.com/f20ins.htm

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