Hey, we'll get to relive Y2K all over again, in 20 years...

[SSSnail]

Someone thought it was a good idea to keep time using a limited 32bit integer, since 01/01/1970 (2^32 in seconds, Unix time). So on December 2nd 2030, at precisely 19:42:58 GMT, we'll party like it's 1999.

The world, as we know it, will end.

You heard it here first, the Mayans were off by 18 years! New apocalyptic doom clock count down, someone print a T-shirt.

 

[olds]

huh?

 

[FelixDeCat]

They missed my birthday by 6 days! :'(

 

[wedi42]

won't matter, we'll all be under water by then

 

[Cogman]

Someone thought it was a good idea to keep time using a limited 32bit integer, since 01/01/1970 (2^32 in seconds, Unix time). So on December 2nd 2030, at precisely 19:42:58 GMT, we'll party like it's 1999.

The world, as we know it, will end.

You heard it here first, the Mayans were off by 18 years! New apocalyptic doom clock count down, someone print a T-shirt.

except on x64 bit *nix systems where the standard is a 64 bit integer.

 

[SSSnail]

except on x64 bit *nix systems where the standard is a 64 bit integer.

Most of everything that this world runs on do have the 32bit.

huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

 

[FoBoT]

i will buy more guns and ammo
thanks for the warning

 

[Cogman]

Most of everything that this world runs on do have the 32bit.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

Today, eh, kind of. 10 years from now. I wouldn't bet on it.

Either way, I never understood what the big deal of the roll-over was anyways. It didn't cause problems in 1999, why would it in 2019?

 

[IronWing]

I had to deal with this problem already. I wrote a calendar script for a forum. The script allowed folks to add repeating events like holidays. If they added events that repeated past 2037, the script crashed. It turned out to be a pain to fix.

 

[El Guaraguao]

It seems to me, some of you folks forgot about 12/21/2012.

 

[Cogman]

It seems to me, some of you folks forgot about 12/21/2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcktvrfpO4 @ 8:58

 

[silverpig]

Most of everything that this world runs on do have the 32bit.

'cept by 2020 I'd hope that most systems that old will have been replaced.

 

[SSSnail]

Shhh... you guys are suppose to go along with the Doom Clock Countdown.

 

[3chordcharlie]

'cept by 2020 I'd hope that most systems that old will have been replaced.

Yeah, but in 2002 we all thought all those old systems would be gone by 2008.

 

[IGBT]

Someone thought it was a good idea to keep time using a limited 32bit integer, since 01/01/1970 (2^32 in seconds, Unix time). So on December 2nd 2030, at precisely 19:42:58 GMT, we'll party like it's 1999.

The world, as we know it, will end.

You heard it here first, the Mayans were off by 18 years! New apocalyptic doom clock count down, someone print a T-shirt.

just think how much fun you'll have digging bomb shelters in the back yard. buying generators and pallets of survival food.

 

[Leros]

'cept by 2020 I'd hope that most systems that old will have been replaced.

Judging by the 8" green ASCII terminals at the DMV, I wouldn't so sure about that.

 

[Jeff7]

Someone thought it was a good idea to keep time using a limited 32bit integer, since 01/01/1970 (2^32 in seconds, Unix time). So on December 2nd 2030, at precisely 19:42:58 GMT, we'll party like it's 1999.

The world, as we know it, will end.

You heard it here first, the Mayans were off by 18 years! New apocalyptic doom clock count down, someone print a T-shirt.

Well what could possibly be wrong with that? Computers will never be able to handle anything nearly that large on a regular basis anyway.

 

[Leros]

Worst case we can just write a software patch to use two 32-bit numbers to hold the time.

 

[cliftonite]

won't matter, we'll all be under water by then

Speak for yourself buddy, I have real estate in Africa.