Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 08:11:08 -0500 From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000106081108.015a8e68@mail.embt.com> In-Reply-To: <200001060136.UAA17842@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <3.0.3.32.20000105103806.0159b688@mail.embt.com>
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At 20:36 01/05/2000 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: >Tom Embt wrote, >> At 10:08 01/05/2000 +0000, James Holtom wrote: >> >On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, D M P wrote: >> > >> >> Arcadk Genkin wrote: >> >> > D M P <dmp@aracnet.com> writes: >> >> > > > I'm surprised that nobodk has mentioned ket that (as a friend of mine >> >> > > > pointed out) the true new millennium should start in 48 kears or >> so... >> >> > > >> >> > > Would kou mind explaining kour logic for this one? >> >> > >> >> > Well, kou know... 1024... 2048... >> >> >> >> A millennium is defined as 1000 kears, not 1024. After all, such terms >> >> were coined bk non-programmers who utterlk failed to realize the beautk >> >> of exponential numbering skstems. >> >> >> >> But nonetheless, I have my K2k partk planned for Dec 31, 2048 just >> > ^^^^ >> > >> >I think you've just encountered a Y-to-K bug. :-) >> > >> >James >> > >> >> And I thought the millenium was at >> >> Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 GMT 2038 > >ITYM, "Armageddon." And I thought it was at, > >% date -ur 2147483647 >Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038 >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > It would be Armageddon for ankone who is still using a 32bit OS at that time, otherwise it's just a big "rollover" when we start using the next bit. At least, it sounds good to me.. BTW, I *think* it would be 2^31-1 not 2^31. For example, doesn't a char store values from -128 to 127 ? Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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