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Year 2000

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Year 2000

#192376

Postby kiloran » January 10th, 2019, 1:18 pm

We've all heard about the Year 2000 problem, when electronic systems might have failed without corrective intervention by software geeks.

So why has there been no publicity about the Year 2019 problem? 3 clocks in our house have failed since the turn of the year. And not flat batteries, they are either working intermittently (with a new battery) or completely dead.

If it was just one, that would be believable, but 3 in a few days? What's going on?

--kiloran

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Re: Year 2000

#192379

Postby Rhyd6 » January 10th, 2019, 1:32 pm

Blame it on Brexit or Trump, that seems to be the default position these days :D

R6

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Re: Year 2000

#192381

Postby AleisterCrowley » January 10th, 2019, 1:34 pm

Have we had a coronal mass ejection recently ?!

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Re: Year 2000

#192398

Postby UncleIan » January 10th, 2019, 1:55 pm

AleisterCrowley wrote:Have we had a coronal mass ejection recently ?!


Is that a euphemism?

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Re: Year 2000

#192412

Postby didds » January 10th, 2019, 2:19 pm

meanwhile T2K was 19 years ago - but in another 19...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Best hope everything is running on 64 bit (or greater) by then...

didds

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Re: Year 2000

#192416

Postby brightncheerful » January 10th, 2019, 2:26 pm

Blade Runner 1982.

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Re: Year 2000

#192431

Postby bungeejumper » January 10th, 2019, 3:15 pm

brightncheerful wrote:Blade Runner 1982.

Like it. :D

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Re: Year 2000

#192463

Postby XFool » January 10th, 2019, 4:29 pm

Isn't this (relatively) well known?

It's a GPS equivalent of the Millennium Bug.

https://spectracom.com/resources/blog/l ... -need-know

Although that should be from April 2019! Perhaps it was a coronal mass ejection, or just space weather. :?

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Re: Year 2000

#192497

Postby scotia » January 10th, 2019, 5:16 pm

They just don't make things like they used to!
We still have operating a clock which was a wedding gift to Dad in 1939, and my cousin still has a clock operating which was bought on the morn of the day that Dad was born in 1912. Regrettably Dad expired at 95.

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Re: Year 2000

#192518

Postby jackdaww » January 10th, 2019, 6:20 pm

didds wrote:meanwhile T2K was 19 years ago - but in another 19...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Best hope everything is running on 64 bit (or greater) by then...

didds


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re 2038 issue , ive put it in my diary .

but coming up to 80 (this saturday) , it may not affect me.

:D

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Re: Year 2000

#192558

Postby monabri » January 10th, 2019, 8:42 pm

jackdaww wrote:
but coming up to 80 (this saturday) , it may not affect me.

:D



THAT'S a surprise.......







I thought it was Sunday! :lol:

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Re: Year 2000

#193570

Postby Clariman » January 14th, 2019, 11:26 pm

When I started out as a graduate trainee programmer in 1981 I remember pointing out to the Project Manager and Lead Programmer that these programs wouldn't work in 2000. They laughed at me saying, "Don't worry about that - no-one will be using this software in 2000!" Who was laughing in 2000 ;)

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Re: Year 2000

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Postby jackdaww » January 15th, 2019, 7:33 am

Clariman wrote:When I started out as a graduate trainee programmer in 1981 I remember pointing out to the Project Manager and Lead Programmer that these programs wouldn't work in 2000. They laughed at me saying, "Don't worry about that - no-one will be using this software in 2000!" Who was laughing in 2000 ;)


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but there was plenty of (well paid) work for us programmers in 1999.

most company managers just didnt prepare for a known event being due .

bit like brexit then ...

;)

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Re: Year 2000

#193626

Postby StepOne » January 15th, 2019, 9:36 am

Clariman wrote:When I started out as a graduate trainee programmer in 1981 I remember pointing out to the Project Manager and Lead Programmer that these programs wouldn't work in 2000. They laughed at me saying, "Don't worry about that - no-one will be using this software in 2000!" Who was laughing in 2000 ;)


Project Managers and Lead Programmers for a start.

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Re: Year 2000

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Postby jdlemon » January 15th, 2019, 5:02 pm

During the 1970s and into the 1980s we used to say that software had a lifetime of 5 years - at least that's what we said for accounting purposes.

In 2006 I was doing a Y2K migration which had some embedded software I'd written in about 1974 - so I didn't find it hard to change. The main software system was only about 20 years old...

Jon


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