 | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Todd Lehman
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| | | (...) Sorry, you're right, and I didn't mean to misquote Matthew. Anyway, I didn't mean broken in the non-workable sense, I meant broken in the poorly-designed sense[1]. The NNTP protocol shouldn't have to define that a two-digit year means 1900+xx (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) Oh, absolutely. (...) Yup. Maybe this was back when dates in Date: were also stored as two digits? (At least, ISTR that used to be the case). Ah well, on to Y10K. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Actually, long before that, there'll be problems with all the windowing dates people picked.... Like, is 700101 for 2070? :) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | (...) Well, yeah, but those don't all happen at the same time.. And most of the truly critical systems can't use windowing anyway, due there being people who live longer than 100 years, etc.etc. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) True enough. Well, there's always the 32-bit Unix date wraparound to get paranoid about. :) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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