Y2K

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Wed Dec 27 21:39:36 MST 2017


On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:54:17 -0500
Matthew Crews <mailinglists at mattcrews.com> wrote:

> Man, Y2K seems like at eternity ago. I knew back then that nothing
> world-ending was going to happen, but I expected there to be major
> hiccups. Thankfully there were only minor hiccups since everyone
> worked their butts off on correcting Y2K bugs.
> 
> The year 2038 problem might be a similar result. 

In my wildest imagination, I can't conceive of a situation in which 32
bit computers are still used in 2038. And if there are still 32 bit
computers in use, our society probably has much worse problems than a
date flipover could ever produce.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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