On 14 Sep 2001 20:13:18 -0400, Terrance Eck wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Must make a note for my 85th birthday about this...
-- Regards Cliff
I'm sure the programers back in the 1950-1960 felt the same way when they used 2 digits to represent the date.
Yes, but for modern machines, this problem can be fixed by using a 64-bit value to keep track of the seconds, which makes it a Y292,277,026,596 problem. That will be long after our sun burns out, so programmers won't have to worry. (It'll give their decendants a programming project to work on during the long trip to another solar system...) Unfortunately, this won't affect the CPUs in embedded circuits, some of which (so I've heard) use 32-bit time values starting from the Unix epoch. That could make it a much worse problem than the Y2k thing. Daniel