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1985 Usenet About Y2k

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-the-day dept.

Anonymouse Cow writes "Here's a trip down memory lane (for some of you "oldsters"). Google's newsgroups has the first usenet mention of the Y2K bug... in 1985! Quote: "I have a friend that raised an interesting question that I immediately tried to prove wrong. He is a programmer and has this notion that when we reach the year 2000, computers will not accept the new date." Check out the replies!"

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  1. Interesting but... by rblancarte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wasn't this news about 4 or 5 years ago? Now that we are 2.5 years past Y2K, it makes this a moot point. Hell, why is this even on Slashdot now?

    RonB

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  2. Re:And now Y2038 by glwtta · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I think this has been mentioned before:

    From: Ron Natalie (ron@brl-tgr.ARPA)
    Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
    Date: 1985-01-27 15:19:06 PST

    Of course, UNIX time (seconds past midnight GMT 1 Jan 1970 in 32 bits) falls apart around 2042.

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