Comments on: Remember This?…… http://www.mrambler.com/blog/2007/05/31/remember-this/ We are community ramblings. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jek http://www.mrambler.com/blog/2007/05/31/remember-this/comment-page-1/#comment-6214 Jek Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:04:14 +0000 http://www.mrambler.com/blog/?p=438#comment-6214 I was on-call that night for the software company I worked for at the time. We got one false call at 9:36pm (Seattle time). And then I got a call at 3am with a real problem. Fortunately it was mostly cosmetic. We, and I expect most companies, worked very hard for the preceding 6 months to make sure things would be smooth. I was on-call that night for the software company I worked for at the time. We got one false call at 9:36pm (Seattle time). And then I got a call at 3am with a real problem. Fortunately it was mostly cosmetic. We, and I expect most companies, worked very hard for the preceding 6 months to make sure things would be smooth.

]]> By: zook http://www.mrambler.com/blog/2007/05/31/remember-this/comment-page-1/#comment-6182 zook Thu, 31 May 2007 14:47:56 +0000 http://www.mrambler.com/blog/?p=438#comment-6182 I always found it a bit odd that we would have a problem with 2000: to introduce a decimal error to a binary machine seems oddly byzantine. You'll have another chance to sit in fear before the TV in 2038. Many computer systems keep track of the date as the number of seconds since 1 January 1970, and if they use a signed 32-bit number for this, then the clock will roll over sometime in early 2038. Of course, by then everyone should be using 64-bit numbers (at least), and if we've moved to signed 64-bit quantities we shouldn't have problems until the year 292271025015. I always found it a bit odd that we would have a problem with 2000: to introduce a decimal error to a binary machine seems oddly byzantine.

You’ll have another chance to sit in fear before the TV in 2038. Many computer systems keep track of the date as the number of seconds since 1 January 1970, and if they use a signed 32-bit number for this, then the clock will roll over sometime in early 2038.

Of course, by then everyone should be using 64-bit numbers (at least), and if we’ve moved to signed 64-bit quantities we shouldn’t have problems until the year 292271025015.

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