Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 May 2005 08:19:47 -0700 | From | randy_dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day |
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On Fri, 13 May 2005 16:37:36 +0200 DervishD wrote:
| Hi :) | | * Srinivas G. <srinivasg@esntechnologies.co.in> dixit: | > Tuesday, January 19 2038. Time: 03:14:07 GMT. If Linux programmers get | > nightmares, it's about this date and time. Immediately after that second | > is crossed, current computer systems running on Linux will grind to a | > halt or go into a loop. This will trip up a lot of databases. No, this | > is not another hoax raised by some anti-Linux lobby. It is Linux's own | > Y2K nightmare, says Businessworld. | | Do you mean we have less than 33 years to switch to a longer type | to store timestamps? I'm *seriously* frightened. I'm only 32, so I | think I will manage to spend another half of my life switching to 64 | bits timestamps. | | But we shouldn't worry, anyway, because the end of the world is | scheduled to be much sooner. I've heard rumours about a hyperspace | speedway that must pass *just* over this tiny little planet we call | home. Maybe the answer is 42.
but that begs the question, "to what question is 42 the answer?" 8;)
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