full-disclosure - alert: the 111111 bug

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Date: Tue Jul  5 05:16:59 2005
From: aditya.deshmukh at online.gateway.strangled.net (Aditya Deshmukh)
Subject: alert: the 111111 bug

>
> I noticed one of my customers using the "special" date of 11/11/11 in
> their database.

These sort of shortcuts are frequently taken by the programmers or the
DB admins after the whole system has been setup :)

> For this customer 11/11/11 in the date field means, don't process
> this record, which will obviously cause problems with legitimate
> transactions on that date.

This becomes a part of the site's folklore that every new admin/programmer
has to learn to prevent chaos@.




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