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Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970

Posted by michael on from the bzzzzzt dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "In Software glitch brings Y2K deja vu, CNET points out a small wave of Y2K-like bugs may soon hit, though it gets the explanation wrong. It will soon be about 2^30 (1 billion, not 2 billion) seconds since 1970 (do the arithmetic). Systems that use only 29 bits of a word for unsigned/positive integers, or store time as seconds since 1970 in this format, may roll back to 1970. (Many systems that do not need full 32 bit integers may reserve some bits for other uses, such as boolean flags, or for type information to distinguish integers from booleans and pointers.)"

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  1. Re:Some systems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    can you fucking read?

  2. Re:RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    So if your still using UnixWare, you may be in trouble.

    Repeat after me 10 times:
    1. "your" should be "you're"
    2. "your" should be "you're"
    3. "your" should be "you're"
    4. "your" should be "you're"
    5. "your" should be "you're"
    6. "your" should be "you're"
    7. "your" should be "you're"
    8. "your" should be "you're"
    9. "your" should be "you're"
    10. "your" should be "you're"
  3. You're a Mac u'er. by sfled · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    dick'ead.

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  4. Re:I WAS BORN IN 1973 by Epsillon · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So, why the fsck would I care?

    You really ought to. You may end up swimming around in someone's gonads ;o)

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  5. Re:Some systems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes. This man has no dick.

  6. Re:Some systems... by rickle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Probably MS systems... We just don't know when or where it will happen on those. One of the many disadvantages of non-opensource software. Do you feel lucky? I do, but not that lucky.