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2697: "Y2K and 2038"

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:52 am
by ratammer
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Title text: It's taken me 20 years, but I've finally finished rebuilding all my software to use 33-bit signed ints.

Wikipedia has a nice list - there are more than you'd think!

Re: 2697: "Y2K and 2038"

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:28 pm
by heuristically_alone
I did not expect wikipedia to discuss problems thousands of years into the future.

Re: 2697: "Y2K and 2038"

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:19 pm
by somitomi
heuristically_alone wrote: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:28 pm I did not expect wikipedia to discuss problems thousands of years into the future.
Wikipedia has a timeline of the future of the universe that includes events after all black holes have evaporated through Hawking-radiation approximately 10100 years from now. of course it discusses problems a mere couple milleniums in the future...

Re: 2697: "Y2K and 2038"

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2022 4:34 am
by heuristically_alone
And here I am thinking about the problem of what's the latest I can set my alarm tomorrow and still be ready on time.