From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 19 17:28: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.72.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1581560C for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:27:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (Mizzou-AS4-40.missouri.edu [128.206.205.184]) by math.missouri.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA05955 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:25:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <371BC97E.D7FBB349@math.missouri.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:25:34 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Year 2000 References: <199904192120.OAA08822@chad.anasazi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chad R. Larson wrote: > > The computer industry seems to have shortened "Year 2000" to "Y2K". > Isn't that the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the > first place? >................ While we are on the subject, as I understand it, UNIX has a year 2038 problem coming up. After we get through the Y2K hurdle, shouldn't we start to seriously tackle the year 2038 problem? I know it seems a long way off, but then 2000 seemed a long way off in 1960. Just wondering if the internet will face serious problems in 2038 because of all the `old' unix software still running it. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message