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Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday

Posted by kdawson on from the not-a-good-day-for-a-loan dept.

Jon Masters writes "I just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday, January 19th 2008 will mark the beginning of the 30-year countdown to the Y2K38 bug, when Unix time will overflow 32 bits. Some 30-year loan calculation software might start having problems with this over the weekend."

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  1. Re:I can't wait! by peragrin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If we are sill running 32 bit software in 2038 I will fully blame MSFT.

    I would be surprised if 70% of the comptuers in use by 2020 would still be 32 bits. Not with most of the newer processors today at 64 bits. Experiments in 16 core 128 bit computers to toast your bread in the morning should be happening by 2020.

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  2. Re:And other things.. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You talk as if jesus existed. That would be bad, because since God doesn't exist, that turns him into a Bastard.

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  3. Re:And other things.. by Dark$ide · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I always found it interesting that 1 billion seconds happened 2 days before 9/11. Is that 10^12 (a billion) or 10^9 (an American billion or what I'd call one thousand million)?
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