fizzBuzz
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Earlier this week, Elon Musk met with the press alongside Trump in the Oval Office. There, he claimed that Social Security recipients of 150 yrs old are receiving checks. Here is the full video:
Source: https://youtu.be/Sa1m5OuF5Tk?si=6209SdVXdkqtOr7U&t=480
People took to Twitter, with one guy claiming that 1875 is the Epoch time for COBOL. This meaning the default value, or zero-value date, is the year 1875. As a comparison, Javascript's Epoch time is January 1st, 1970 UTC. And all datetime values in javascript are represented as the milliseconds from this epoch date. That sounds like it would be aggravating to deal with... and it is.
Source: https://x.com/ArmandDoma/status/1890569493140697343
I am a programmer, but I know nothing about COBOL even though I can sort of read it (I feel bad for back-in-the-day coders). Any COBOL experts in the house? I did find that the ISO-8601:2004 standard introduced a reference calendar date of May 20th, 1875. But does this work like epoch time? Or does it just mark the beginning of the calendar's formatting capabilities?
I did verify, at least to some degree, that the SSA system runs on COBOL. This article is from 2016. But it also states that, starting in 2012, the agency has taken an opportunistic approach to reduce it's reliance on COBOL. How much has been converted to date, who knows?
Source: https://youtu.be/Sa1m5OuF5Tk?si=6209SdVXdkqtOr7U&t=480
People took to Twitter, with one guy claiming that 1875 is the Epoch time for COBOL. This meaning the default value, or zero-value date, is the year 1875. As a comparison, Javascript's Epoch time is January 1st, 1970 UTC. And all datetime values in javascript are represented as the milliseconds from this epoch date. That sounds like it would be aggravating to deal with... and it is.
Source: https://x.com/ArmandDoma/status/1890569493140697343
I am a programmer, but I know nothing about COBOL even though I can sort of read it (I feel bad for back-in-the-day coders). Any COBOL experts in the house? I did find that the ISO-8601:2004 standard introduced a reference calendar date of May 20th, 1875. But does this work like epoch time? Or does it just mark the beginning of the calendar's formatting capabilities?
I did verify, at least to some degree, that the SSA system runs on COBOL. This article is from 2016. But it also states that, starting in 2012, the agency has taken an opportunistic approach to reduce it's reliance on COBOL. How much has been converted to date, who knows?
https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-t...ressional-testimony-july14-ssa-modernization/External Quote:SSA maintains more than 60 million lines of COBOL today, along with millions more lines of other legacy programming languages.