 | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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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)
| | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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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)
| | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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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)
| | | | | Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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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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