Good news! We’ll be exctinct long before this happens. One less thing to worry about!
Y10K.
Nah, they will do what they always do. Change some system environmental variables to move the zero date on till after they would have retired.
Nobody wants to touch the original code, it was developed in the 1970s
The two most difficult things in programming; dealing with time, naming things, and boundary conditions.
oh just start at 0000 again, signate that as 10,000. Files didn’t start until like 1979 anyways, and there can’t be many left, and even if it is a problem, now you have 2000 years to not worry about it.
You don’t have to wait that long. Programmers are already patching software for the Y2K38.
2147483647 + 1 will also be a rough year for humanity (or whatever is left)
In other news, the colony Szinthar failed to update its software systems due to a lack of pregrammers and Techmancers. Signals received suggest there were no survivors.
Actual programmers wondering why this joke doesn’t mention 65535…
More of a front end issue actually, almost all time is just stored as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970.
And it’s represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.
What about the year TREE(3)?
The Butlerian jihad will have happened by then.
Yeah assuming tech gets that far before imploding
Every NHP instantly unshackles at midnight.
No moon is safe.
“Were being short-sighted”
Lol Picard maneuver. Pretty sure your opinion wasn’t asked for.
