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Offline Kosh

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Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
on: January 15, 2008, 08:15:58 pm
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/01/15/1928213.shtml


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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 wonder if we're going to see more of the mass hysteria we saw for the original Y2k bug.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline redsniper

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #1 on: January 15, 2008, 08:41:40 pm
It's after 2012 and therefore not a problem. :p
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Offline spartan_0214

Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #2 on: January 15, 2008, 08:51:19 pm
Some people are on the Roman Calendar, not the Mayan Calendar... :rolleyes:

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Offline Kosh

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #3 on: January 15, 2008, 08:53:15 pm
Even then there are still many doomsday prophesies in 2012
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline spartan_0214

Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #4 on: January 15, 2008, 09:02:43 pm
I know. The only one that really makes sense is the Mayan Calendar (those wacky dudes that first created the concept of zero and are an overall innovative peoples) ends in 2012. The rest don't make sense.

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #5 on: January 15, 2008, 10:38:16 pm
the calender doesn't end in 2012, the current epoch on the calender ends in 2012.
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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #6 on: January 15, 2008, 10:46:35 pm
Quote from: Kosh on January 15, 2008, 08:15:58 pm
I wonder if we're going to see more of the mass hysteria we saw for the original Y2k bug.

The difference is that everyone's thinking about this 30 years in advance, whereas with Y2K it was kind of short notice...
 

Offline Dark RevenantX

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #7 on: January 15, 2008, 11:57:17 pm
Computers will be part of our brains by that time...  I'm sure the 32bit time data would become 64bit by then.
 

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #8 on: January 16, 2008, 12:40:47 am
by then im sure the bus would be yet wider, and all current architectures will be a thing of the past.
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Offline Ashrak

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #9 on: January 16, 2008, 01:08:08 am
wtf is the problem, just add another bit to the timestamp :)
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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #10 on: January 16, 2008, 01:54:25 am
Quote from: Ashrak on January 16, 2008, 01:08:08 am
wtf is the problem, just add another bit to the timestamp :)

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Offline captain-custard

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #11 on: January 16, 2008, 03:50:02 am
done it , i added a bit of cheese it works perfectly an smells lovely  :D
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Offline Grizzly

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #12 on: January 16, 2008, 06:27:33 am
Quote from: redsniper on January 15, 2008, 08:41:40 pm
It's after 2012 and therefore not a problem. :p

The mayan calander only ends there because the mayans didn't believe their system would be in use at that date.

(oh, and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar#Inscriptions_Beyond_2012)
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #13 on: January 16, 2008, 06:38:04 am
And they were right on the money, how is that for prophesizing?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Wobble73

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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
Reply #14 on: January 16, 2008, 07:31:55 am
Quote from: Stealth on January 15, 2008, 10:46:35 pm


The difference is that everyone's thinking about this 30 years in advance, whereas with Y2K it was kind of short notice...

They are not thinking 30 years in advance, this happens this year due to 30 year loan calculation software. Software that calculates 30 years ahead! It's not like we have 30 years to correct it because that date will start to appear in calculations this year, get it!  :rolleyes:
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Re: Y2K38 - This time, it's personal
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