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A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline's booking system.

The problem occurs because American Airlines' systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not want to share her surname, was born in 1922, rather than 2022.

The BBC witnessed the latest mix-up, which she and the cabin crew were able to laugh off.

“It was funny that they thought I was only a little child and I’m an old lady!” she said.

But the centenarian says she would like the glitch to be fixed as it has caused her some problems in the past.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least choose an 8-bit digit for the ages of passengers! You'd have to live to be 256 to roll that over!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Might as well play it safe and make it a 16-bit integer on the off chance the world doesn't end and we quadruple our life expectancy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Emperor Leto Atreides II deserves to Fly American™ just as much as the rest of us

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We haven’t learned our lesson about Unix time overflow yet, have we? Better up it to 64 bit signed, just to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Make that bad boy unsigned, just to be safe!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

BigNumber is the solution.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile in America: your baby isn't covered by Medicaid because it isn't born yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I see you are talking about babies. Please check 1 before proceeding further

[] Birth is forced by state

[] Birth is wanted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You may have received a birth certificate, but we do not recognize your status of birthed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

This is outrageous. This is unfair.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do airlines typically handle 1 year olds flying alone? That seems nuts.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We fixed this 124 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Worse is that this is basically just the Y2K problem…that they somehow never addressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's what they just said. It should have been fixed 124 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They kludged it, probably only store 2 digits and if its lower than current year, assume 2000s, otherwise assume 1900s.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Ah, the “Windows 9” problem.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Math is hard

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is it really that hard to lie about your age

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

TSA will send you back to the ticket gate if your ID doesn't match booking details.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

On a plane? The details you enter have to match your ID.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

She's 101. Fuck no would I lie about my age if I was 101. I'd brag about it.

"All those bullies back in high school? Fuck you, I outlived every last one of you assholes!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I had to fight an annoying bug like this in our companys frontend code once. That specific country's pretty-date settings insisted on returning only the last two digits of a year, and the UI framework's date input field read it like that before parsing it back to a date.

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