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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. What loan software uses Unix time? by corsec67 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And, wouldn't 50 years or longer loan terms have shown this before now?

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  2. Re:WTF are you talking about? by plague3106 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, its kind of hard to compute payment dates if your date representation ends at 2038, and you have something longer than a 30 year mortgage.

  3. Re:And other things.. by Malevolent+Tester · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apocalyptic event? Last time I checked, the world was still here. Epochal, perhaps, as I suspect it will be the defining event for my generation, much like the moon landing or JFK forgetting to duck, but in the grand scheme of things it was no more apocalyptic than the 2005 tsunami.

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  4. Re:2048 by Inquisitus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who the hell stores years as 11-bit integers?

  5. Re:I can't wait! by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Though I highly doubt much will be in operation in 30 years. ... said the COBOL developer in 1970...

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