Re: 1111111111

This reminds me of the "Millenium bug" which threatened the world a few years ago. The doom was prevented by thousands of Fortran and Cobol programmers, who saved us for the measly collective sum of 5 billion dollars. This will be another "programmer's bonanza". Of course it will probably all be outsourced to India and Bangladesh this time :-). If you need to save the world, you may as well save money too. :-) I'll be too old to care anyways.

P.S. Hmmmmm. This occurs right after the tip-off time of the Second MarchMadness Game today... I wonder what the numerologists would say....I think it means a big upset....sure...yeah....bet on the underdog today. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re^2: 1111111111 by hardburn (Abbot) on Mar 18, 2005 at 15:32 UTC
Sithspit. While there were some very specific date-sensitive systems, the Y2K bug was largely hype. I remember lieing in bed, sick, about two weeks before the date rollover, when I had a violent case of the obvious: why would my computer care if the date is Jan 1, 1900 (or 19100)? The majority of computers wouldn't. Now, there are computers that do care, and were proven to care by putting the dates to Dec 31, 1999 @ 11:59pm and waiting a few minutes. Billing systems in particular were affected, so we were looking at a potential finacial crisis. And yes, it was largely FORTRAN and COBOL code. But the power would continue to run. Satalites would not fall. Nukes would not be launched. "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply]
Re^3: 1111111111 by zentara (Archbishop) on Mar 18, 2005 at 16:22 UTC
Yeah, if I recall correctly, the only malfunction the news reported was a few remote seismic monitors up in Alaska. It sure was "whooped up" in the media though. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^2: 1111111111 by bunnyman (Hermit) on Mar 19, 2005 at 00:13 UTC
The unix time value rolled over to 10 (decimal) digits back on Sept 9th, 2001. A few things broke, but nobody really noticed. slashdot covered the story.	[reply]


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