[time-nuts] Y2K again: Tuesday 03:14:07 GMT, January 19, 2038

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Apr 20 23:27:23 UTC 2008


In message: <480BB18C.70807 at pacific.net>
            Brooke Clarke <brooke at pacific.net> writes:
: I should have mentioned the failures have just started.  If you subtract 30 
: years from the subject date you get:  03:14:07 GMT, January 19, 2008
: Financial institutions that do 30 year mortgage calculations are the ones who 
: were bitten.

They are the ones that were bitten by y2k bug in 1970 and use sensible
data types instead.

Warner




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