OT: Y10K is coming... Beware

douglas · #1 November 29th, 2005, 08:36 PM

Of course, by then practically everything will have switched over to 64-bit (or more), which will be enough for near 300 billion years.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 November 29th, 2005, 09:31 PM

But what if there's these little entrenched programs everywhere, that nobody really thinks about?

We must prepare for Y10K!

Jack Simth · #3 November 29th, 2005, 09:37 PM

Yes... you'd be amazed at just how much legacy code makes it into an operating system.... nobody touches the drivers for a disk drive, for instance....

Of course, by the time y10k rolls around, most of us will be either:
a) Long since dust
b) done facing the Final Judgement (computers hardly a concern after that)
c) Computer programs of some stripe

Now, the y2038 bug could be much worse.... depending on how the OS handles the overflow when it happens.