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Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday
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."
I spell profits on the wind...
*sniffs himself*
Yeah, it's the wind.
Do not confuse "Freedom of Choice" with "Free Will".
I plan on making a mint using my mad C skillz in 2036 and 2037, just like all those Cobol guys who came out of retirement in 1998.
The cake is a pie
I can get a thirty-year $250,000 loan with monthly payments of -$1,200.
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Remind me again when it's 30 minutes.
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as vba doesn't have this limitation like that child's toy they call unix
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I envy the programmers who had the foresight to program their application using a 2 digit year field. They won't have to worry have to worry about this problem until 2099, and by then we won't be using the same systems we do today anyways!
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So long as it wipes out my 30 year loan I don't have a problem here. Now if we can get this to work on my five year car loan......
Is this going to affect the Duke Nukem Forever release?
If you haven't made a developer cry, you've wasted a day.
Well, applications that use dates ~26+ years ahead may have trouble, but nothing else will, since the world is going to end on 2012!
You mean upgrading to a 64bit cpu won't fix all the bugs in my code? The horror!
VMS has been Y10K-compliant for over a decade.
Just the Linux port of it.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Yeah, but 1234567890 comes just short of Feb 14th in a year (Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 UTC).
It just goes to show that true geeks will only ever almost get close enough to women for romanitc encounters.
Yep it is last my retirment date as well.
Doesn't matter since I hard code all my programs to fail on my 70th birthday anyway.
Just kidding.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
I don't give a shit. And I mean that in the most literal, non-idiomatic way. If I had a pile of turds in my back yard, and you were to walk up to me and say, "Excuse me, sir, if you would let me relieve you of one of these useless pieces of feces I could guarantee a resolution to the Y2K38 computer issue," I would simply reply, "I'm sorry, but those are my shits, and I'm not giving one."
Yeah, kind of like how Christ was born so close to the changeover from BC to AD.
The mayan calendar ends in 2011 or 2012, I cant remember off the top of my head, so thats supposed to be the end of the world from what conspiary theoriests say, so that means the world will end 20+ years before this ever happens, so who cares ;)
Really?! So there are always at least 12 numerological associations with every event in history?! OMG, I'm totally freaking out!!!11!1!
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
At least until your pacemaker calculates that it doesn't need to beat again for 30 years....
Your mom stores years as 11-bit integers.
Interesting that of all the numbers you could have mentioned, you just happened to pick dozen: the number of eggs that are most often sold together. This suggests you are a chicken farmer. Your uid is another clue: 853723. 8+5+3+7+2+3=28. 28 % 12 = 4, which happens to be your comment's score at the time I type this. 853723 %12 = 7. You bring your eggs to market every week.
Look at all I have learned about you. And you think numerology doesn't work.
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Ah, but 172800 seconds is significant. 1+7+2+8+0+0 = 18, which is (9*1)+(9*1), which is 9(1+1). 9/11!
Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option.
The Urban Hippie
In any case, fixing the basis library and recompileing is enough for properly implemented software.
Whew! It's a good thing most software is properly implemented, then.
Why would anyone be using an OS written for scientists? They're all weird and stuff.
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Interesting that of all the numbers you could have mentioned, you just happened to pick dozen: the number of eggs that are most often sold together. This suggests you are a chicken farmer. Your uid is another clue: 853723. 8+5+3+7+2+3=28. 28 % 12 = 4, which happens to be your comment's score at the time I type this. 853723 %12 = 7. You bring your eggs to market every week.
Look at all I have learned about you. And you think numerology doesn't work.
You forgot the most obvious - 853723: 8 + 5 + 3 + 7 = 23. This chicken farmer has a name: Topsy Kretts. Watch out!
perl -e "eval pack(q{H*},join q{},qw{70 72696e74207061636b28717b482a7d2c717b343 637323635363534323533343430617d293b})"
My birthday is January 19th. Does that mean I'm going to expire due to some kind of horrible fatal error on my 57th birthday?
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
Yeah my wife contributes to the IRA through some guy called Charles Schwab. I am surprised that guy hasn't been sent to Gitmo for funding a terrorist organisation.
Holy shit! That's the same combination that I have on my luggage! =)
Another kdawson special. Thanks for keeping us fed, even if its from the bottom of the barrel.
Has your tin foil hat slipped?
There, fixed that for you.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
And of course "12" is composed of the digits 1 and 2.
1+1=2
1*2=2
2/1=2
1+2=1
2^1=2
What does this all add up to...?
9
But don't forgot...
9 + 1*2 = 11
Who has a UID with 9 as it's most common digit?! Bob-taro!!
Whose UID without the 9s = 6+8+8 = 22, That's TWO 2s. 22 divided by 2...you guessed it... 11.
That's right...9...11. 9/11!!!
Who had the most to gain from 9/11?! Bob-taro!!
Who brought down the towers?! Bob-taro!!
Who fired a cruise missile into the Pentagon!? Bob-taro!!
And to think, Bob-taro, you almost got away with it you sneaky sonuvabitch...
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
The most subtle part of his plan was where he changed 1+2 to equal 1.
I see your informative link, and raise you a pithy comment.
Does this mean I should update the firmware of my abacus? I dont think there has been an update for a few thousand years. I once used a Egyptian Firmware Patch with a Roman Abacus, and it rendered the thing unusable. Not only that, but later that week - my dog was killed my a plague of locusts.
Fortunately 64-bit numbers can now be handled by pcs, and can be used as an extended timestamp to get a few billion years of time.
Sure, we could to that, but then even if we use an unsigned number, we're still just going to be fucked again in AD 584,542,050,060.
And, by the way, 5+8+4+5+4+2+5+6 = 39, which is the number of weeks in a human pregnancy, which means the 2nd coming of Christ and the apocalypse.
All because programmers were too lazy to use 128-bit numbers to represent dates.
paintball
When I type "7/7" into Google, Google tells me it's "1"
Then it goes on to mention something about a bombing in London.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
It's not his fault, he was using an Pentium.
So the bank will be trying to foreclose on you for being 100+ years late on your last payment before you are scheduled to make your first. Awesome!
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