Y2K

Eric Siegerman erics at TELEPRES.COM
Wed Jan 5 17:16:59 EST 2000


On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:43:58PM +0000, Dave Berry wrote:
> At 09:11 05/01/00 , Richard Lockwood wrote:
> >Isn't it ironic that computer users have shortened '2000' to 'Y2K'?  Surely
> >that was what caused the whole problem in the first place?
>
> Especially as 2K is actually 2048.

Which is ten years after the next major date crisis, Jan 19, 2038
at 03:14:08 GMT, when many UNIX systems' internal time counters
will overflow.

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