I think we can defederate that company’s name from our personal vocabulary instances.

  • @NABDad
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    21 year ago

    Next doom and gloom scenario is 2038, when poorly maintained *nix systems will think it’s Jan 1st, 1970.

    I’ll be pushing 68. Hopefully retired or dead by then.

    … I’ll probably still be working, though…

    • @visor841
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      41 year ago

      Eh, it only being an issue for 32-bit systems will hopefully help. But of course somebody will still be running that in 15 years.

      • @Bruncvik
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        11 year ago

        Lots of financial institutions are still using software programmed with Cobol. My father graduated with a software engineering degree for Cobol in the mid-1970s. My company provides external API for customers who still use green screen terminals. Of course there will be people running 32-bit systems. And I’m sure there will be well-paid jobs for fixing any date overflow on those systems.

      • VindictiveJudge
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        11 year ago

        And even then, 64-bit time for 32-bit systems is already a thing that’s being implemented specifically to avoid this.