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Excel having a stab at dates (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Now do 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think we're mostly using 64 bit machines now. Even loads of embedded stuff is running on 64 bit processors now.

There will still be a lot of old software and hardware that needs updating before the 32 bit Unix time overflow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Hopefully it's another Y2K nothing burger. (Which was largely because a lot of people prepared for it)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I got my first office job thanks to Y2K. An enormous amount was spent fixing it, with some of the fixes needed years before 2000-01-01, for example systems that projected into the future

Biggest problem I saw was a program that stored 1999 as 99 and displayed "19".year

So when set to January 2000 it showed 19100. Its calculations were fine, just its display and reports were wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Agreed, most of the actual problems seemed to be in reporting. I saw some cobol stuff that went to 1900. There were a few things where 00 wasn't an option, But mostly it was just really heinously written stuff that wasn't expected to be in service even in the '90s.

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