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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Gerd Kortemeyer <ko...@lite.msu.edu> on 2001/03/09 15:42:33 UTC
Re: 1 Billion Bug 1BB - [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000 thisyear!
I will open my consulting business on Mon, Jan 18th, 2038.
- Gerd.
Nigel Hamilton wrote:
>
> HI,
> I'm waiting to see how quickly someone starts the 1 Billion Bug
> (1BB) Consultancy ... scary.
>
> NIge
>
> Nigel Hamilton
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> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Tim Bunce wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:44:59AM -0500, Bill Desjardins wrote:
> > >
> > > Just as a FYI about something that caught my attention recently. This year
> > > on Saturday September 8, 2001, the unix time stamp flips to 1 billion and
> > > gets another digit going from 9 to 10 digits. Not sure if anyone else but
> > > me is using the timestamp in ways that were set to 9 digits, such as DB
> > > column int length or in strings of fixed lengths, but these possibilities
> > > should be looked at just in case they could fail when the time changes to
> > > the longer int.
> >
> > Another common bug-waiting-to-happen is sorting the unix time stamp
> > values as strings instead of numbers.
> >
> > Tim.
> >
Re: 1 Billion Bug 1BB - [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000
thisyear!
Posted by Gunther Birznieks <gu...@extropia.com>.
At 03:19 AM 3/20/01 -0800, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
>
>[bugs and design fu^H^Hchoices waiting to happen]
>
> > I will open my consulting business on Mon, Jan 18th, 2038.
>
>funny, I thought we all worked so hard to have a chance of retiring
>before that.
Yeah all that tech stock I have... :)
Later,
Gunther
Re: 1 Billion Bug 1BB - [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000
thisyear!
Posted by Ask Bjoern Hansen <as...@valueclick.com>.
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
[bugs and design fu^H^Hchoices waiting to happen]
> I will open my consulting business on Mon, Jan 18th, 2038.
funny, I thought we all worked so hard to have a chance of retiring
before that.
- ask
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Re: 1 Billion Bug 1BB - [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000
thisyear!
Posted by Robert Landrum <rl...@capitoladvantage.com>.
I can see the headlines now....
"New Miracle Drug to Extend Life by 310 Years"
It's those exact same thoughts that got us in to trouble in 2000. Oh well....
Rob
At 11:04 AM -0500 3/9/01, Bill Desjardins wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
>
>> I will open my consulting business on Mon, Jan 18th, 2038.
>>
>> - Gerd.
>>
>
>Well, I thinks we should be fine after this change. it will be ~310 YEARS
>till we have to worry about an extra digit again! We can let them worry
>about legacy code then :)
>
>Bill
>
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Re: 1 Billion Bug 1BB - [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000
thisyear!
Posted by Bill Desjardins <bi...@carracing.com>.
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> I will open my consulting business on Mon, Jan 18th, 2038.
>
> - Gerd.
>
Well, I thinks we should be fine after this change. it will be ~310 YEARS
till we have to worry about an extra digit again! We can let them worry
about legacy code then :)
Bill
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f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng...