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NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-about-that-time-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems a glitch of some sort wreaked havoc on some NTP servers yesterday, causing many machines to revert to the year 2000. It seems the Y2K bug that never happened is finally catching up with us in 2012."

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  1. 2012: the end of the world! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh sorry. My clock's off.

  2. 2000 ZERO ZERO by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Party's over,
    Whoops! Out of time!

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  3. Re:The Y2K bug by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trust the computer industry to shorten the term "Year 2000" to Y2K.

    It was this kind of thinking that got them in trouble in the first place.

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    Have gnu, will travel.