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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."

2 of 542 comments (clear)

  1. definition of irony by DreadSpoon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's either binary or it's not.
    So you're saying you can't have .25 (somewhat) binary nor .84 (mostly) binary, just 0 (not at all) binary or 1 (completely) binary?
  2. Re:2048 by MartyBorg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hey. There's only 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who understand binary ... and those who don't.

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