What week is it anyway? Part 1

Raise your hand if you’ve ever come across a test case failing due to a recent year change. Sounds familiar? Well, here’s my story about a bug that waited for five years to cause my test suite to fail for the first time – and would wait for another eleven to do it again. Intrigued? Read on.Let’s give you some contextSome time ago I was working on a pretty complex issue tracking application used in many places across the world. One of its smaller features was an admin panel containing a bar graph with information how many issues were created throughout the year.