[Elsie]

How big a deal was Y2K?

 

In the run-up to new century, the United States spent about $100 billion

combating the bug—around $9 billion by the federal government,

and the rest by utility companies, banks, airlines, telecommunications firms,

and just about every other corporate entity with more than a few computers.

 

 

Nov 11, 2009

 

 

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And only 18 more years before we get to do it all over again!!

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The Year 2038 problem (also called Y2038 or Y2k38 or Unix Y2K) relates to

representing time in many digital systems as the number of seconds passed

since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit integer.

Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.

Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia

[Elsie]

Even the advanced Mayans had calendar problems.

The 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, ended on 21 December 2012, but they left no record on how to solve it.

(Which mattereth not; as they wuz all gone by then anyway!)

[Paul R.]

Yeah, our company had to upgrade about 2/3 its machines to new computers — all the machines tied to the accounting & inventory stuff. OTOH, my lab machines, no problem. None were web connected so I just lied to them about the date & kept track of it!