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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 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.
Your ad here. Ask me how!
No, that was me. Sorry.
Vescere bracis meis.
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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Is this going to affect the Duke Nukem Forever release?
If you haven't made a developer cry, you've wasted a day.
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.
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.
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.
As a coincidence, nobody has actually used VMS in over a decade.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
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.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
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.
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.
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.