My daughter just received her HSC (NSW high school leaving certificate) in the post this week. Couldn't believe it had the wrong year printed on it, saying 2017, not 2018. Apparently all 70,000 certificates were wrong and have to be reprinted and sent out again. How does that happen!?

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^Been policy for a while...

Definitely not a "computer error". To all intents and purposes there is no such thing.

The real problem is outsourcing. Systems are outsourced to the lowest bidder. Those bids have almost no resources for software testing.

Managers try to shift all the risk to the outsource provider and dedicate none of their own people to doing testing. When things go wrong they point to the other guy and duck.

Gorgo said..
Definitely not a "computer error". To all intents and purposes there is no such thing.

The real problem is outsourcing. Systems are outsourced to the lowest bidder. Those bids have almost no resources for software testing.

Managers try to shift all the risk to the outsource provider and dedicate none of their own people to doing testing. When things go wrong they point to the other guy and duck.

Who said anything about a computer error, I can probably send out bugger all handwritten letters a day with the wrong date but 70,000 with a computer would be easy, discounting AI computers only work with the information put into them.

If you right click on almost any file on your computer and then click on "properties" the pop up box will give you the date it was created and the last date it was modified.

Does that info help anybody resolve this issue??

I have found this "date stamping" of computer files particularly useful when needing to prove to the Rental Tenancy Authority that I have issued notices to tenants on specified dates when the tenant claims otherwise.