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Flag day, as used in system administration, is a change which requires a complete restart or conversion of a sizable body of software or data. The change is large and expensive, and—in the event it doesn't work—reversing the change is similarly difficult and expensive.[1]

This usage originates from a change in the Multics operating system's definition of ASCII, which was scheduled for the U.S. holiday, Flag Day, on June 14, 1966.[1]

Another flag day was January 1, 1983: when the ARPANET changed from NCP to the TCP/IP protocol suite.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "flag day". Retrieved 2008-09-22.
  2. ^ Jon Postel, NCP/TCP Transition Plan, RFC 801


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