Y2K38

has anyone seen this?

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haha, we have 29 years to fix it or to panic! hahaha

Yeah. I don't have any fear. Any computer that I expect to be using anytime near then I am sure will have a fix in the hardware. My older computer hardware (mac museum, including a Mac 128k, Mac SE, Quadra 660AV, etc) I will just set the date back. Sooner or later the computer engineers will have to consider this in design.

"haha, we have 29 years to fix it or to panic! hahaha"
That's what they said in 1971. And this bug is real.

Of course, simply converting timestamps to 64-bit will solve it (64-bit timestamps give you a couple trillion years before overflowing), which is already largely underway.

Nintendo software (Gamecube/Wii) uses a Year 2000 epoch AFAIR, so you've got until Y2K68 for Ninty stuff.

Not sure what libogc uses - probably a mix between the two, so it's probably got the Y2K38 bug.

I was only 10 for the Y2K bug... so I don't remember : how did they fix it? or was it blown out of proportion?

I remember in my school people said about the Y2K: "Happy end of the world for you" =P

For what I get it, the biggest problem at the Y2K was the storing of dates using 2 digits, to save memory. They "just" changed the time variables to 4 numbers.

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I was only 10 for the Y2K bug... so I don't remember : how did they fix it? or was it blown out of proportion?

It was blown out of proportion (I only think that not 100% sure) because I can set my old Mac SE to over 2000 on the year without a problem.

hmmmmm...The problem with ninty hardware is the wii updates over wi-fi so you can't set the date back. So in 2K68, our Wiis will shit the bed.
Although i bet video games then will make the wii look like catch compared to Star Wars Battlefront III

I can change my wii's system time by option of myself. What system version do you have?

uhhhhhh...not sure. I can't check right now, but i think 3.4u

ok, what i meant was that i think nintendo sets the date back to the correct thin g with an update. But i bet they'll stop updating by 2015. So after that we just have to remember to set the date back.



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hmmmmm...The problem with ninty hardware is the wii updates over wi-fi so you can't set the date back. So in 2K68, our Wiis will shit the bed.
Although i bet video games then will make the wii look like catch compared to Star Wars Battlefront III

so I guess Cartman's plan to freeze himself while waiting for the release of the Wii and finally being unfrozen 500 years later really wont work since the Wii's will be screwed... poor Cartman.... hahaha

hmmmm.....i didn't see that episode, he actually did that? Like getting pissed at Kenney for not holding onto his position in line to get Chinpokomon? lol Im a major Pokemon fan so that episode pissed me off too.

As mentioned 64-bit should fix it, but that means no more 16 bit apps, also this!!!!

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(as if the World will last that long)

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hmmmm.....i didn't see that episode, he actually did that? Like getting pissed at Kenney for not holding onto his position in line to get Chinpokomon? lol Im a major Pokemon fan so that episode pissed me off too.

haha, yeah. It was a hilarious episode... 2 actually, Go God, Go and Go God, Go XII

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