On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Jerome Fine wrote:
>
> > Many people have told me that I am crazy to even consider this
> > possibility, let alone do the work, but why save data for 10,000 years?
> > Does anyone have any advice as to how to handle the problem that
> > the calendar can't be predicted exactly so far into the future?
>
> I don't know...will it matter? Are you intending that people will still
> be using these operating systems 8,000 years from now or are you only
> concerned about the data itself?
>
> Still, it wouldn't hurt to add another digit in the year field. Of
> course, by that time you'll be dead, so what do you care? Let some future
> genius figure it out :)
But, of course, that is how we got into the Y2K problem originally.
- don
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