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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: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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