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Re: Y2K problem with lugnet! (was Re: Help! My newsreader's downloading everything on lugnet!)
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:51:42 GMT
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:09:40 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:
Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
Ah well, on to Y10K.

Actually, long before that, there'll be problems with all the windowing
dates people picked.... Like, is 700101 for 2070?

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



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