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  • Yes, there are random systems using every kind of smart or brain-dead option out there.

    But the 2038 problem impacts the previous standard, and the current one will take ages to fail. (No, it’s not 33000, unless you are using some variant of the standard that counts nanoseconds instead of seconds. Those usually have more bits nowadays, but some odd older systems do it on the same 64 bits from the standard.)



  • A has been consistently improving it since before the change, so it’s only possible that they are managing to the metric if they had earlier access to it.

    B may be doing that, but the graph doesn’t actually measure how many bugs you closed. Those ones seem to have decided to manage by the metric, removing the variance but targeting a high, comfortable level.

    Agreed on C, they did a large “hey, we will be measured by that now” one time effort and then forgot about the metric.

    The change didn’t improve anybody’s performance.