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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Year 2000 compliancy
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Dan Welch wrote:

> I'm trying to reason the roll-over year from what you said:
>     unsigned:  2^32 seconds = 136 years ==> 2106
>     signed:    2^31 seconds =  68 years ==> 2038
> I can get your number with 2^30.5 I think, but that makes no sense.
> 
> So how did you get year 2018?

Brain failure.

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