Tiny Core Linux

Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Tux's Corner => Topic started by: cast-fish on February 23, 2014, 02:53:40 AM

Title: bug
Post by: cast-fish on February 23, 2014, 02:53:40 AM

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

Title: Re: bug
Post by: tinypoodle on February 23, 2014, 03:20:11 AM

And your point is?

Title: Re: bug
Post by: thane on February 23, 2014, 01:26:17 PM

Well, when I started doing programming on mainframes in the early 80s and saw the 2-digit year field, I recall thinking "Won't this cause problems in 2000? Oh well, nobody will be using this stuff then anyway." Of course, then there was the whole Y2K thing. Hopefully Unix/Linux will be more ahead of the game coming up on 2038 than we were back in the 90s.

Title: Re: bug
Post by: gerald_clark on February 23, 2014, 02:40:04 PM

By 2038 there will probably be no 32bit processers left running.