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Just reading the headline gave me traumatic flashback to a customer project for a winter sports brand that broke on April 1st after not being modified for months prior to this.

You guessed it: There was a sleeper bug detonated by the date change. Pain the butt to track down in Perl code that was generating an Excel spreadsheet cell-by-cell.




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