Hugo Kornelis (3/11/2013)
Good question on a feature that, hopefully, nobody ever relies on anymore. 🙂
It always surpriseded me that anyone relied on it, except in early cobol programs where dates were strings and every byte counted. :sick: After all, 64 bit time - often represented as microseconds since 1900-01-01T00:00:00.000000, but sometimes 32-bit date (days) and 32-bit time (microseconds - a serious waste of 3 bits there :hehe:) - has been used in many languages since about 1968, so that string representations of dates were no longer a storage issue except for cobol programmers and those addicted to text strings for dates.
Minor issues: it looks like the distracter options for value 1 and value 2 have been switched, and there was only one answer option for value 4.
The switch of distractors maybe did no harm - it seems somewhat incredible, but to date 12% of people picked the distractor for value 1, apparently believing that a two digit year 49 could stand for a 4-digit year ending in 50, while only 9% picked the distractor for value 3 which required a far less bizarre mistake. But perhaps the craziest result is that 10% failed to get value 4 right although no wrong option was provided :w00t:, although that 5% could believe that two different values were both correct for value 1 is also rather surprising. :blink:
Tom