Be prepared for Y2038

http://www.dewtronics.com ^ | Feb 3, 2005 | Dr. GUI

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Where can I find more information about it and other date-related bugs?

What to look for: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm

How to fix it: http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html

http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/perl/perly2k.htm

http://pw2.netcom.com/~rogermw/Y2038.html

http://linuxfinances.info/info/unix2038.html

http://vancouver-webpages.com/time/Y2K38.html

http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Date_Calc/

http://www.silurian.com/gawp/fomg7.htm

http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/Cpp/cpp_mfc/article.php/c775/ http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Unix%20epoch

http://www.precisioninfo.com/index.php?doc_id=59

Mars Rover crashes, reports year as 2038 (see paragraph under heading "Condition Red") - http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/20040831.html

http://archives.hwg.org/hwg-techniques/200001052338.AAA08753@ck-sg.p.lodz.pl

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Condition Red

The team was working on Mars time, in a building at JPL isolated from the California time of day by blackout shades on the windows. It was nighttime for the Spirit rover and nighttime for Spirit’s handlers.

"Sleeping and eating were optional," said Adler. "There were cots we could sleep on in our offices. This was our one objective, our primary objective in our lives, was to get our spacecraft back."

The next transmissions from Spirit were garbled. The rover was babbling, doing things like sending nonsensical communications that it date-stamped as being from the year 2038.

2038 The Year Kennedy Assasination breifs to be released ?

[dirtboy]

But, Y2038 is entirely different. In Y2K, computers still kept perfect time and internally had no problem with the roll-over to year 2000. But not so with Y2038! In Y2038, computers are going to forget how to tell time and for many will roll-back to the year 1970!

And by then 95 percent of technology in use will have been re-developed.

[Francis McClobber]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[Petronski]

I think thirty-three years will be plenty of time. LOL

[LibKill]

33 years is a long time in technology. Had you ever even seen a computer 33 years ago? Most folks had not.

In 33 years the tech will be so high you will need a ladder to get up there and see it. :)

[Vermonter]

And by then 95 percent of technology in use will have been re-developed.

And if it isn't, I'll be 93 then and somehow I don't think this will be a problem for me

[Petronski]

We're doomed. Doomed! DOOMED!!!

[shezza]

"Whatchyou talkin' 'bout, PUNK?"

[Lazamataz]

But, Y2038 is entirely different. In Y2K, computers still kept perfect time and internally had no problem with the roll-over to year 2000. But not so with Y2038! In Y2038, computers are going to forget how to tell time and for many will roll-back to the year 1970!>

Start buying Spam now.

[dirtboy]

How do you fix it? Well, you'll have to buy new software for every program you own! And, most all of the computers and hardware will have to be replaced as well!

OHMYGOD! You mean I can't use the same computer and software the way I have for the last 40 years? I love my IBM 1620 - and you'll only remove my card reader from my cold, dead arms!

[ScottFromSpokane]

My conclusion as to why everyone is still developing with this limitation are that... blah, blah, blah.

Well, maybe. Or maybe it are because no one are going to be using the same hardware or software in 30 years that they is using now.

2038 The Year Kennedy Assasination breifs to be released ?

Ohhhhhhh...I see.

[CzarNicky]

If I am still using the same hardware in 2038 as I am now please someone kill me.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I just love posting these kinds of threads i cant help myself !

[dirtboy]

33 years ... hmmmm ... 23 years ago I was using WordStar on a multiuser CPM machine using 64K Z-80 processors - and with a whopping 10 meg hard drive that was the size of a breadbox. Televideo terminal and a daisy-wheel printer finished the package.

[MJY1288]

Will my Tandy 2000 be effected?

[Lazamataz]

I just love posting these kinds of threads i cant help myself !

The first step is to realize you are powerless over your addiction and that your life has become unmanageable.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Start buying Spam now.

I figure that the 38 cases I currently have left from Y2K should still be good then.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Having a little fun with us, atomic?

[LibKill]

Start buying Spam now.

And Velveeta, "The Cheese That Cannot Die".

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The first step is to realize you are powerless over your addiction and that your life has become unmanageable.

Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash! Be water, my friend.--Bruce Lee