Signed Long Integer Date Bug
Dear @msexchangeteam. The FIP-FS “Microsoft” Scan Engine Failed to Load. Can’t Convert “2201010001” to long. For anyone who's casually seeing this and wondering WTF - the maximum value of a signed long integer is 2147483647, making it an... *interesting* choice to store datetime information in yymmddHHMM format 🤪
A social media screenshot shows a technical joke about Microsoft Exchange failing to convert the value “2201010001” into a long integer. The punchline is that a yymmddHHMM timestamp can exceed the maximum signed 32-bit integer value, making the chosen date format unexpectedly problematic. It is shared as a reaction to confusing software bugs or questionable engineering decisions.
- @profunctor_io / 7618 2022-01-01
- @right_wing_dev_squads / 10451 2024-09-09
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