Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com> wrote:
> Now I'm going to be ill. Look out world, here comes "Millenium Savings
> Time." Yes boys and girls, at midnight on December 31st 1999 we are all
> going to turn back our calenders to 1990 and the date will officially be 1,
> Jan, 1990 _again_. This will give the world another 10 years to fix their
> problems and then on December 31st 1999 (MST) we turn the calendar
> _forward_ 10 years.
Actually it should be 28 years rather than 10, so that the day of the week
and leap year cycle remain correct. That will give us plenty of time to
fix the problem. Of course, then no one will work on the problem for another
26 years.
Lots of people will be unhappy when they suddenly find themselves below the
legal ages for voting, driving, drinking, etc.
The Internet Software Consortium (the people that develop and maintain
BIND, DHCP, etc.) have a nice web page describing their strategy for dealing
with the Unix Y2038 problem:
http://www.isc.org/y2k.html/
(Don't hold your breath.)
Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 14:19:00 BST