No system is perfect. On November 17, a systemic error known internally as the occurred. A routine update to the marriage module accidentally inverted the gender flag on 982 records. Suddenly, in the registry, dozens of husbands became wives, and wives became husbands. The error was detected within 47 minutes by an automated anomaly-detection script (written by a junior developer named Ema, who had added a line checking that the sum of "father" and "mother" fields in a birth record always equaled two).
The primary legislation governing these changes was , which introduced amendments to the foundational Civil Status Law ( Ligji Nr. 10129 dated 11.5.2009). regjistri gjendjes civile 2018 upd
The 2018 update did not destroy the past. It simply taught it to speak the language of the future. No system is perfect