"The glitch, it turns out, originated with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation during a transfer of nearly 400,000 records to the Selective Service. A clerk working with the state’s database failed to select the century, producing records for males born between 1993 and 1997 — and for those born a century earlier, PennDOT spokeswoman Jan McKnight said Thursday. ...
The Selective Service didn’t initially catch it because the state used a two-digit code to indicate year of birth, spokesman Pat Schuback said."
So apparently they store their year field as two digits and have a separate field for century, instead of expanding the year field to four digits? Looks like their shoddy programming finally came back to bite them.
Maybe in 2016, when people born in 2000 start applying for drivers licenses, they'll be rejecting them, saying that 116-year-olds are too old to drive safely?
The Selective Service didn’t initially catch it because the state used a two-digit code to indicate year of birth, spokesman Pat Schuback said."
So apparently they store their year field as two digits and have a separate field for century, instead of expanding the year field to four digits? Looks like their shoddy programming finally came back to bite them.
Maybe in 2016, when people born in 2000 start applying for drivers licenses, they'll be rejecting them, saying that 116-year-olds are too old to drive safely?