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Year 2000
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Year 2000
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
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
AleisterCrowley wrote:Have we had a coronal mass ejection recently ?!
Is that a euphemism?
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Re: Year 2000
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...
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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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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Re: Year 2000
jackdaww wrote:
but coming up to 80 (this saturday) , it may not affect me.
THAT'S a surprise.......
I thought it was Sunday!
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Re: Year 2000
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
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
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.
Re: Year 2000
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
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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