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10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2026

62 pointsby luuyesterday at 7:19 PM17 commentsview on HN

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Alupistoday at 2:50 PM

Just skimmed the PR, I'm sure the author knows more than I - but why hard code a date at all? Why not do something like `today + 1 year`?

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kristofferRtoday at 2:49 PM

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bombcartoday at 1:39 PM

Any time constant will be exceeded someday.

An impossibly short period of time after the heat death of the universe on a system that shouldn’t even exist: ERROR TIME_TEST FAILURE

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db48xyesterday at 8:54 PM

Classic!

But before you judge the fix too hashly, I bet it’s just a quick and easy fix that will suffice while a proper fix (to avoid depending on external state) is written.

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