We're doomed - AGAIN!

[Kurt Buff]

Y2k, but much worse, I'm sure, as nobody has ever seen anything like this before!

https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/134086/unix-epochalypse-may-strike-sooner-than-expected/

LOL.

Kurt

[Micheal Espinola]

It will be interesting to hopefully learn about systems at risk still using two digits for the year. 

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[Kurt Buff]

I sure hope no critical systems still you two-digit years. That should have been fixed over 25 years ago.

This problem stems from date fields being only 32bit, and the fix is to recode using 64bit fields and recompiling - not a small task, but probably (I hope) easier to fix than Y2k.

Kurt

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[Henry Awad]

Wasn't there a similar issue with routers having 32k NVRAM issues a few years ago that caused a massive outage? 

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[Philip Elder]

A friend of mine worked for one of the largest North American insurance agencies as a technical architect for decades.

 

They had to deal with all of these kinds of things in the 1970s because they underwrote 25 years or 30 years or even longer policies.

 

We still did very well with our PC sales in 1999 though. Very well. 😊

 

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[Kurt Buff]

I don't remember that. Doesn't mean it didn't happen though. I'm beginning to suffer from CRS syndrome.

Kurt

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[Severino Juan Miguel]

Hi

 

It will be much more difficult to fix than Y2K. Unix timestamps are being used everywhere.

 

For instance, one of the systems set up recently in my current employer (kernel message on Linux):

kernel: xfs filesystem being mounted at /mnt/MinIO/MINIODRIVE1 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff)

 

Best regards

Seve

 

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[Jim Behning]

My car's odometer is only allocated enough memory to record 1 million kilometers. Since I am US based, that conversion stops 624,000 miles. Only way to get it to start counting again is to remove the instrument cluster and get it reprogrammed back to 0000000, or 000000 in US miles units. Wah, I wanted to see something way over 700,000 miles on my odometer. Well technically not really wanting to see a million miles on my car, but affordable acreage is a long distance from where I could find ok paying jobs so I waste a lot of time driving.

I am at the end of my long driving career. If I could afford a new car I doubt I would put 100,000 miles on it before retirement. 

Not so relevant to operating systems not planning to last a few centuries. 😉

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[Wright, John M]

Why would you want to fix it?  Let it roll to zero then sell it as new.  😊

 

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